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             Natural Disasters: Lessons from Uttarakhand                                                                    Saumitra Mohan             The recent cloud burst in Uttarakhand and subsequent natural disaster in the form of massive inundation should make many of us sit up and take notice. While it is true that notwithstanding all disaster management plans, man is helpless against the vagaries of nature as also borne out by the regular loss of lives and property from tsunami, tornados, typhoons and hurricanes in the developed countries like USA and Japan. ...

Chasing the Holy Grail of Pe ace in South Asia                                                                                     By Saumitra Mohan             The world seems to be slowly becoming enveloped in the pall of gloom and doom. The confirmation of the same is all around us if just take a look around us. Against the background of the globe reeling under the massive problem of recession and stagflation, the global peace index has also been worsening. And the situation is no different for the countries of Sou...

Understanding the Creation and Our Role                                                                         Saumitra Mohan             The empirical insights emanating from our everyday life experiences and the consequent cognitive comprehension of the intricacies of human ontology are quite revealing at times. Human life often appears so bright and beautiful. When everything goes well and smooth, one even desires immortality to continue clinging onto the savouries of life. However, when the going gets tough and the tough never seems to be going, one also feels that one h...

The Indian Civil Service Needs Servicing                                                           Saumitra Mohan                       In a classical democracy, it is the elected executive, which is supposed to lead the Government of the day in terms of charting out a customized path to the desired development based on the needs perceived and felt by it. However, it is always the permanent executive i.e. the bureaucracy which not only provides a semblance of stability between many elected governments which come and go, but also ensures the systematic execution of the developmental schemes and prog...

Strengthening Security in Naxal Affected Areas                                                           Saumitra Mohan                  With none other than the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself admitting Naxalite insurgency to be the country’s deadliest internal threat to          security, security in Naxal affected areas has always been a challenge to             reckon with. However, some intelligent thinking in recent times            has    ...

Tackling LWE Menace Through A Holistic Approach                                                               Saumitra Mohan       The problem of left wing extremism (LWE) has often been linked to the alleged development deficit in the country. The Union and the state governments have been trying to deal with the problem in a holistic manner through better synergy in the areas of security, development, ensuring rights of local communities, improvement in governance and public perception management.       An integrated approach, as charted through careful study and planning, aims at the relatively more affected areas for being a...

Facing  the Negative Portents of Nation Building                                                                                     Saumitra Mohan             The perceived crumbling of Washington Consensus has belied all expectations from the celebrated victory of liberal capitalism. Many feel that the ‘invisible hand’ of the laissez faire economy has been hiding long enough to notice any sign of a trickle-down effect. The stentorian call for rolling back the state as emerging in the wake of the end of the C...