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Sweet-talk your way to success Saumitra Mohan Today’s fast-paced life, while becoming cosier by the day, is also becoming increasingly complex. And this complexity gets compounded with the kind of people we meet everyday, each with a different hue of character. The confusing medley of people we meet, makes our life more confusing and perplexing. Still we keep meeting numerous people every day as being a social animal, we just cannot help our social interactions. How do we react, how do we behave and how do we converse with them—all these determine many things including what we are and what we want to become. Our interaction with each of them should be measured and customized accordingly. One wrong move and many things in one’s life may go awry. That is why, every time we meet someone, we are always thinking, modifying our reactions and behaviour as per the specifications and requirements of the dyadic relationship we are entering into. Our behaviour is shaped by such factors as our own...

NATIONAL SECURITY MANAGEMENT : SOME REFLECTIONS SAUMITRA MOHAN* National security is a term, which us used very loosely today in common parlance. It is often associated with safeguards either against an enemy country's hostile incursions or maneuvering or against armed non-state actors out to challenge the authority of the state and cause irreparable damages to the unity and integrity of the state. However, national security subsumes these aspects and goes much beyond them and is much more inclusive and broader than commonly understood. The theme of this paper as mentioned at the outset includes three terms namely 'national ', 'security' and management'. Before we go on to discuss the theme in detail, it would be better if we seek to understand what these terms stand for. The first of these, i.e., 'national' means something that us related to 'nation' which is regarded as being co-terminus with the 'state'. In case of India, it has often ...

Stepping Stones to Success By Saumitra Mohan All if us keep dreaming of making it big one day though only some of us are lucky enough to achieve what we aspire for. The best way to make one's dream come true is to wake up and act to realize the same. Even though there are many dream careers to look forward to, but there are only few who are able to complete the journey to the final destination. Many either drop out or fall by the way side in their bid to snatch a place in the sun. Even though, a government job does have all its attractions, but it is not be all and end all. There are far better, more challenging, offering more opportunities, monetarily more rewarding and above all, more satisfying jobs available in the private sector. But one has to have all that qualities in oneself that goes into making of a person worthy of such a responsible position. At a time, when the government in its bid to shed the unnecessary flab that it had gathered all these preceding years is increas...

REGIMES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: A STUDY OF THE REFUGEE PROBLEM IN SOUTH ASIA INTRODUCTION: In recent times, a number of regimes have proliferated on international scence. And as the world sees more liberalization of national economies and the consequent globalisation, nations are increasingly coming together and interacting in a wide variety of issue areas. This increased interaction has definitely given rise to a multiplicity of regimes as facilitatory instrument for cooperation. Though in its new terminological avatar as 'regimes', they seem to be new but they have been an indispensable part of international politics since the dawn of the Westphalian nation-state system. As sets of implicit or explicit 'principles, norms, rules and decision-making procedures around which actors' expectations converge in a given area of international relations', regimes have long been there and impacting international relations positively or negatively. Be it environment, terro...