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Issue Contents
PERSPECTIVE
Making a leader
Excerpts from a lecture on leadership and discipline
Sam HFJ Manekshaw
Our voice in our history
Academic freedom, private funding and historical research
Jayakrishnan Nair
Letters
On whether or not India has a coherent foreign policy
FILTER
A survey of think-tanks
On China policy; Fixing the FATA; An Indo-Israeli alliance?
Vijay Vikram
IN DEPTH
Hold steady in Afghanistan
India is on the right track and it should stay that way
Shanthie Mariet D’Souza
A bigger military presence is essential
…if India is to shape Afghanistan’s future
Sushant K Singh
The myth of Taliban tribalism
The folly of trying to set tribes against each other
Joshua Foust
IN PARLIAMENT
Monsoon Session 2008—What’s in store
Legislative brief
Sarita Vanka
ROUNDUP
When it’s good to slow down
The why and what next about rising inflation
V Anantha Nageswaran
The historical roots of the services sector
…calls for a strategy that plays to India’s strengths
Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta
Profiting from education
Resistance against commercialisation is fruitless
Atanu Dey
BOOKS
Four books about Pakistan
On nuclear proliferation, military politics and society
Nitin Pai
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