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    Other nations could benefit from India’s digital transformation

    2018-08-29T07:56:40+00:00December 9th, 2016|2016, Last Word, Year, Yearend 2016|

    Governance systems developed ground-up in India can be replicated in other places in the world.

    Over the last two centuries, India has adopted, or been forced to adopt, standards and systems imported from the West and imposed, except in some cases, from above. So, India’s judicial system is a copy of the British legal system, its education system is a product of Lord Macaulay’s disdain for all things Indian, its link language is also a gift from the former colonial masters and the Westminster model of democracy that India follows is a close replica of the British parliamentary system.

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      Is the UK pulling up the drawbridge on talent?

      2018-05-18T13:04:39+00:00December 8th, 2016|2016, India-UK, Year, Yearend 2016|

      The UK may be vehement that it remains outward looking and open to global talent but developments over 2016 reflect the opposite. The overall anti-immigrant rhetoric in the build up to Brexit, a crackdown on work visas and the continuing drop in Indian students choosing UK universities have contributed to the image of a country closing its doors.

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        Despite the headwinds India’s global march will continue

        2018-09-05T07:19:26+00:00December 8th, 2016|2016, Putting it in Context, Year, Yearend 2016|

        The year that began with lots of hope is drawing to a close on a note of concern and some cautious optimism. In between, there was shock, some not so pleasant surprises and renewed promise of a better future. It’s always a huge risk to pre-judge history but I think I’ll still go out on a limb and declare that when the definitive history of globalisation is written, 2016 will stand out as the year in which the idea of [...]

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          A beachhead for entry into ASEAN

          2019-02-07T18:28:04+00:00December 8th, 2016|2016, South Asia, Year, Yearend 2016|

          Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) collectively hold a lot of promise for Indian companies, both as a market and source of raw materials.

          Most Indians are quite familiar with Vietnam. Apart from etching itself into the India’s (and the world’s) collective consciousness for its heroic and successful fight against a superpower in the 1960s and 1970s, it has also emerged recently as a close Indian ally in South East Asia against a new Chinese assertiveness.

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            Africa’s importance to India

            2018-08-10T07:53:53+00:00December 8th, 2016|2016, World View, Year, Yearend 2016|

            A leading Indian diplomat based in Africa shares his views on why the continent is important to India. Any observer of Indian foreign and strategic policy may well raise the question: Why Africa? Why should a developing country like India expend its limited political, diplomatic, human and financial resources on Africa when there are myriad problems to be resolved within the country. Moreover, given India’s limited resources spent primarily cultivating the P-5 and other great powers like Germany and Japan, [...]

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