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Make in India : Will Swadeshi 2.0 Help India Outperform China?
- May 29, 2020
- Posted by: Mr Manoj Mohanka
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Domestic Issues, Foreign Affairs, General Topics
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Swadeshi – that clarion call for self-reliance – first heard in 1905, asking Indians to boycott British products and embrace the home-grown, is making a comeback it seems, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Only this time, the object of protest is China. Open WhatsApp or Instagram today, and a video or a meme asking to ‘Say No to Chinese Goods’ or ‘Buy Indian, Be Indian’, is likely to pop up.
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Post-COVID, Is China Only Country with Enough Reserves to Lend ?
- May 7, 2020
- Posted by: Mr Manoj Mohanka
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Rest of the World, SAARC, USA, West Asia
On 3 April 1948, three years after the WWII ended, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It came to be known as the Marshall Plan, named after Secretary of State George Marshall, who, in 1947, proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of post-war Europe.
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Lockdown: How we pay for Centre-States trust deficit
- March 7, 2020
- Posted by: Mr Manoj Mohanka
- Categories: Domestic Issues, General Topics
At any given time in the life of a nation, trust and cooperation between the states and the Centre are the key to the state of the Union.
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Where Will India Store Indus Water Once It Stops The Supply
- October 2, 2016
- Posted by: Mr Manoj Mohanka
- Categories: Domestic Issues, Military, Strategic Affairs
I think everyone in India is making too much of a song and dance about our “surgical strike”. One can justify it as an emotional outburst as public mood was frayed and action was demanded from the government. It was also clear that the noises being made by India on the repudiation of the Indus Waters Treaty was only a bluster.
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Autonomy of States via Article 370 ‘Won’t Threaten ‘Idea of India’
- August 16, 2016
- Posted by: Mr Manoj Mohanka
- Categories: Domestic Issues, Military, Strategic Affairs
The single biggest grouse against India by the Kashmiris has been the dilution of Article 370 over the decades, i.e. the erosion of the State’s powers in relation to the Centre. The best way to ‘skin this cat’ is more autonomy for each and every state of India including Jammu and Kashmir – genuine autonomy in a truly federal India with no concentration of power in the Centre, as is unfortunately the case today.
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Here’s Why India Has the Right to Call Kashmir Her Own
- July 28, 2016
- Posted by: Mr Manoj Mohanka
- Categories: Domestic Issues, Military, Strategic Affairs
There’s enough written about Jammu and Kashmir and its accession to India, and the events thereafter. I want to put down my understanding of why I believe that India has every right to call Kashmir its own.
