Book Review by Abhay Vaidya “Was the prime minister sleeping when the Babri Masjid was being demolished?” One of the most gripping chapters in the book under discussion begins with this piece of gossip as it goes on to present a graphic account of the then Prime Minister Mr P V Narasimha Rao’s deep engagement […]
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Book Summary By Chandran Iyer This book is a must not only for the policymakers of India but everyone who is keen to see India on a growth trajectory. Where does India stand today economically socially and politically 75 years after Independence? Where should it aspire to go from here in the next 25 years
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Book Summary By Chandran Iyer It is an open secret that the relationship between India and China is as volatile as high-octane fuel. The two world powers are facing off against each other along their disputed border in the Himalayan region and sparks keep flying on and off. Though the two countries have fought only
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Book Summary by Abhay Vaidya, Director, PIC The partition of India in 1947 resulting in the horrific communal violence that engulfed the subcontinent is undoubtedly one of the greatest tragedies of human history. An estimated one million people were butchered and millions of lives destroyed in the Hindu-Muslim communal violence across the country in 1946-47
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Book Summary by Abhay Vaidya, Director, PIC The partition of India in 1947 resulting in the horrific communal violence that engulfed the subcontinent is undoubtedly one of the greatest tragedies of human history. An estimated one million people were butchered and millions of lives destroyed in the Hindu-Muslim communal violence across the country in 1946-47
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Book Summary by Mr. Chandran Iyer Reality is stranger than fiction. This old adage was again proved right when the entire world was in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. What happened, in reality, had a chilling resemblance to what was depicted in the 2011 American medical thriller film Contagion, directed by Steven Soderbergh. The plot
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Book Summary by Ms. Aishwarya Nagar, Research intern, PIC Professor at IIM, Ahmedabad and Member, PIC, Prof. Satish Y Deodhar’s Economic Sutra: Ancient Indian Antecedents to Economic Theory offers a thorough view of the aspects of Indian economic thought preceding and following the Arthashastra. The book spans the era from the Saraswati-Sindhu civilisation around 2500 BCE to
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Book Summary by Mr. Pradeep Nair, Sr. Editor, PIC Entrepreneurship in the general, commercial sense is defined as the ‘activity of making money by starting or running businesses.’ Social entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is a popular term that has evaded definition. Often misunderstood as not-for-profit ventures, the term gets closest to its definition in
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Book Summary by Hitendra Boradey, Research Intern, PIC South China Sea: Territorial Claims and Disputes has chapters authored by 17 scholars from various universities who elaborate on the South China Sea (SCS) region, its importance in terms of economy, trade, energy, and the conflicts in the region, particularly the competing territorial claims involving powerful nations,
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