Book Summary

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, by Amitav Ghosh

Book Summary by Ms. Sanika Potnis, Research Assistant, PIC-EECC In the aptly titled non-fiction book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh raises an alarm about the violence and scale of the climate crisis. The author, best known for his work in fiction, departs from his literary path to address the invisible […]

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India’s Strategic Culture: The Making Of National Security Policy, by Shrikant Paranjpe

Book summary by Ms. Koena Lahiri, Policy Research Associate, PIC India’s Strategic Culture: The Making of National Security Policy by Shrikant Paranjpe is a comprehensive exploration of India’s strategic culture and how it has evolved over time. This summary will provide an overview of the key themes and chapters in the book. The book begins

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The India Way: Strategies For An Uncertain World, by S Jaishankar

Book Summary by Krishna Kaushal Shreedharan, Research Intern, PIC The general global geo-strategic matrix has changed due to the rise of Asia, USSR’s breakdown and Russia’s rebirth, Africa’s economic potential and America gradually losing its footing as the world hegemon. The seismic shift in technology and politics has made it so that power must now take

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The Climate Solution: India’s Climate Change Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Book Summary by Pradeep Nair The Climate Solution: India’s Climate Change Crisis and What We Can Do About It “It was a dusty morning in Hyderabad in April 2016,” the author narrates in Chapter 4 of The Climate Solution. On that hot summer day, a construction worker prepares to go to work as usual. The

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Unmasking Indian Secularism: Why We Need A New Hindu-Muslim Deal

Book Review by Abhay Vaidya and Praneet Shukla Seventy-five years after Independence, the need for an efficient, world-class judiciary and a trustworthy law enforcement machinery has acquired paramount importance for a nation like India, far more than ever before. The time has come for us Indians to focus our energies on giving ourselves these institutions

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Rising to the China Challenge

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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Partitioned Freedom

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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