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On this page I will like to suggest some current reading on India.

Modi “cleared” over Gujarat riots. BBC News, September 25, 2008.

Somini Sengupta, Terrorism’s impact grows as Indian election nears. International Herald Tribune, September 24, 2008.

Rhys Blakely, CEO murdered by mob of sacked Indian workers. Times Online, September 23, 2008.

Harsh V. Pant, Will Kashmir Protests and Terrorism Thwart India’s Global Ambitions? YaleGlobal, September 15, 2008.

Indrajit Basu, Tech-savvy Terrorists Outsmart India. UPI Asia Online, September 15, 2008.

Tarun Khanna & Eswar Prasad, A Blueprint for reforming India’s financial system. Brookings, September 12, 2008.

India’s nanotechnology research lacks commercialization know-how. Nanowerk, September 9, 2005.

Eswar S. Prasad & Raghuram G. Rajan, Next Generation Financial Reforms for India. Finance and Development, International Monetary Fund, September 2008.

C. Raja Mohan, India’s Quest for Continuity in the Face of Change. Washington Quarterly, 31: 4, Autumn 2008.

India’s economic growth slowing. BBC News, August 29, 2008.

Tata plant faces delays over protests. Turkish Daily News, August 28, 2008.

Jonathan Adams, Violent Protests in Kashmir Threathen India-Pakistan Peace Process. The Christian Science Monitor, August 14, 2008.

Somini Sengupta, Sectarian crisis in Kashmir centers on shrine. International Herald Tribune, August 9, 2008.

India court okays UK mine project. BBC News, August 8, 2008.

Stobe Talbott, Nicholas Burns, Robert Einhorn & Stephen Cohen, Implications of the India-US Nuclear Agreement. (Video). Brookings, July 30, 2008.

India’s Afghan projects face threat. Times of India, July 29, 2008.

Ian Rowly and Mehul Srivastava, The Nano: Tata’s Costly Promise. Business Week, July 28, 2008.

Mian Ridge, Bombings may threaten India-Pakistan relations. The Christian Science Monitor, July 28. 2008.

Blast after blast: Another spate of deadly terrorist attacks in India. The Economist, July 28, 2008.

India high-tech city Bangalore hit by seven blasts; 1 dead. Forbes, July 25, 2008.

Business in India: A lost connection. The Economist, July 24, 2008.

Sushma Ramachandran, Trust! Manmohan Singh will now bat for reforms. Boloji, July 24, 2008.

Soutik Biswas, India’s Dalit icon aims for top job. BBC News, July 23, 2008.

Somini Sengupta, India confidence vote opens way for U.S. nuclear agreement. International Herald Tribune, July 22, 2008.

Rahul K. Bhonsle, Naxals Mobile War Strategy. Boloji, July 20, 2008.

School Textbook issue spirals into political row. India Together, July 15, 2008.

Heather Timmons, In India, magazines that translate well. International Herald Tribune, July 14, 2008.

Shuriah Niazi, Dirt Poor But Defiant, These Women Dump Tradition. Boloji, July 13, 2008.

Ron Synovitz, Embassy attack in Kabul highlights Pakistan-India rivalry. EurasiaNet, July 9, 2008.

Heide B. Malhotra, India’s Tata Flexes Its Musles. The Epoch Times, July 8, 2008.

Loro Horta, Indian Investors Enter in Caribbean. YaleGlobal Online, July 8, 2008.

Somini Sengupta, Communists to withdraw support of Indian government. International Herald Tribune, July 8, 2008.

Indrajit Basu, India’s booming business of religion. UPI AsiaOnline, July 2, 2008.

India to raise elite force against Maoists. UPI AsiaOnline, July 1, 2008.

Manjeet Kripalani, India’s Economy Hits the Wall. Business Week, July 1, 2008.

Maurice Landes, The Environment for Agricultural and Agribusiness Investment in India. Economic Research Service, United States Department for Agriculture, July 2008.

Sujit John, Indian BPOs Don’t Fear U.S. Recession. Business Week, June 23, 2008.

Rahul K. Bhonsle, Indian Defense Industry: The Co Production Revolution. Boloji, June 22, 2008.

Hari Sud, India looks for Central Asia for Energy. UPI AsiaOnline, June 17, 2008.

Somini Sengupta, India’s fiscal gains offset by rising prices. International Herald Tribune, June 11, 2008.

Bijo Francis, India’s judiciary is not a holy cow.  UPI AsiaOnline, June 9, 2008.

Pratiksha Baxi, The Outrageous Response to a Child Murder. Boloji, June 8, 2008.

M.D. Nalapat, India’s Worst Enemy: itself. UPI AsiaOnline, June 4, 2008.

Daniel Altman, Industrialization and urbanization in India. International Herald Tribune, June 4, 2008.

Alison Damast, India’s Business Schools Need an Upgrade. Business Week, June 3, 2008.

Bijo Francis, Uttar Pradesh is not Somalia – or is it? UPI AsiaOnline, June 2, 2008.

Hari Sud, Nuclear energy or national gas for India? UPI AsiaOnline, May 27, 2008.

Energy security in India: Suffering from Success. Allianz, May 27, 2008.

Kushal Jeena, India mulls investigate agency to check terror. United Press International, May 21, 2008.

India’s IT Growth To Fall on Western Slowdown. Businessworld, May 21, 2008.

Arvind Panagariya, India: The Emerging Giant. (Video). World Affairs Council of Oregon / FORA TV, May 21, 2008.

Red Storm rising – India’s intractable Maoist insurgency. Jane’s Information Groups, May 20, 2008.

Alistair Scrutton, Hope for political change in India’s Silicon Valley. International Herald Tribune, May 20, 2008.

Hari Sud, Inflation threatens Indian government. UPI AsiaOnline, May 20, 2008.

Manjushree Thapa, India in its Nepali backyard. OpenDemocracy, May 2, 2008.

Gurmeet Kanwai, India should fear China’s defence spending. Rediff News, April 29, 2008.

Mian Ridge, India: How will Maoist gains in Nepal shape two countries’ ties? The Christian Science Monitor, April 22, 2008.

India’s stand on the Tibet issue. Rach 100% Sach, April 19. 2008.

Uwe Perlitz, India’s pharmaceutical industry on course for globalization. Deutsche Bank Research, April 9. 2008.

India pledges African investment. BBC News, April 8, 2008.

Somini Sengupta, India Tiptoes in China’s Footsteps to Compete but Not Offend. The New York Times, April 4, 2008.

Tibet crisis: Why India Needs To Sit Up and Take Notice. Herbloc, March 28, 2008.

Ramesh Menon, Kerala’s development paradox. India Together, March 23, 2008.

Sumit Ganguly, Why India Must Stand Up for Tibet. Newsweek, March 18, 2008.

Richard Herd & Willi Leibfritz, Fiscal Policy in India: Past Reforms and Future Challenges. OECD, March 10, 2008.

What’s holding India back? The Economist, March 6, 2008.

Manish Sharma, Asia’s “Rising Elephant” Stumbles. Far Eastern Economic Review, March 2008.

Nirvikar Singh, The Dynamics of Reform of India’s Federal System. Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2008.

Rahul Bedi & Richard Spencer, US-India defence deal “to counter China.” Telegraph, February 26, 2008.

India’s oldest business empire shines as Tata inks new script, steps into global limelight. International Herald Tribune, February 24, 2008.

Beyond the Backoffice. (Roundtable discussion). BusinessWorld, February 22, 2008.

M. Rajendran, The Great War. BusinessWorld, February 15, 2008.

Manjeet Kripalani, Zero Hour for India’s Tech Companies. Businesweek, February 15, 2008.

Nayan Chanda, India Back in Global Chain. BusinessWorld, February 15, 2008.

Prabhudev Konana, Of technology, efficiencies, and human dignity. The Hindu, February 12, 2008.

Anand Kumar, India: Multi-billion dollar telecom deals. AsiaMedia. February 11, 2008.

Andrea Richter Hume, India’s Record-High Capital Inflows Pose Policy Challenge. IMF, February 4, 2008.

Amit Varma, Profit No Longer a Dirty Word: The Transformation of India. The Library of Economics and Liberty, Liberty Fund, February 4, 2008.

Kalpana Kochkar, senior advisor at IMF’s Asia Pacific Department analyses India’s current economic policy.  IMF Webcasts (video), February 4, 2008. For transcript, which provide a longer version: klick here.   

Mayawati Kumari: Untouchable and unstoppable. The Independent, February 4, 2008.

Muttur Ranganathan Narayana, Globalization and Urban Growth: Evidence for Bangalore (India). University of Tokyo, February 2008.

Muttur Ranganathan Narayana, Telecommunication Services and Economic Growth: Evidence from India. University of Tokyo, February 2008.

Nidhi Singnal, Forgotten youth: Disability and development in India. University of Cambridge, January 2008.

Can China and India boom on regardless? Khaleej Times, January 27, 2008.

Rubiana M. Chamarbagwala and Gunjan Sharma, Industrial Deregulation, Skill Upgrading, and Wage inequality in India. Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington, January 22, 2008.

Prachi Pinglay, Mumbai airport slums face closure. BBC News, January 21, 2008.

Angus Deaton, Height, health and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India. Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University, January 19, 2008.

Emily Oster, Proximate Sources of Population Sex Imbalance in India. University of Chicago, January 17, 2008.

Arvind Panagariya, What India must do to modernize. Vox, January 15, 2008.

Dexter Roberts, China and India: New Vision, Old Tensions. BusinessWeek, January 15, 2008.

Jason Overdorf, The World’s Cheapest Wheels. Newsweek, January 14, 2008.

Carl Hanlon, Government of India and World Bank Group Join Forces to Stamp Out Corruption in Health Sector Projects. The World Bank, January 11, 2008.

Pallavi Aiyar, India walk a long road to China. Asia Times. January 9, 2008.

John Kay, India cannot take economic growth for granted.  Financial Times, January 8, 2008.

Angus Deaton, Price trends in India and their implications for measuring poverty. Princeton University, January 2008.

Muttur Ranganathan Narayana, Performance of Urban India during Globalization Period: An Economic Analysis. University of Tokyo, January 2008. (Slow download).

Nirupam Bajpai, Ravindra H. Dholakia & Jeffrey Sachs, Scaling up Education Service in Rural India: Public Investment Requirements and Policy Reform. Case Studies of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Earth Institute of Columbia University , January 2008.

Tanika Chakraborty & Sukkoo Kim, Caste, Kinship and Sex Ratio in India. Washington University in St. Louis, January 2008.

Walter C. Ladwig III, A Cold Start for hot wars: The Indian Army’s New Limited War Doctrine.  International Security, Vol.32. No.3. Winter 2007-08. pp.158-190. (Harvard College).

Jo Johnson, India’s empire builder.  Financial Times, December 29, 2007.

P. Sainath, India 2007: High growth, low development. India Together/The Hindu, December 26, 2007.

Urban poverty in India: A flourising slum. Economist, December 19, 2007.

Shuriah Niazi, Caste in Schools: The discrimination “curriculum” in Madhya Pradesh ’s schools.  India Together, December 12, 2007.

Kishore Budha, Discrimination rife in Indian Economy. Subaltern Studies, December 4, 2007.

Ron Moreau and Sudip Mazumdar, Red scare in India. Newsweek, December 3, 2007.

India Economic Summit 2007 – Rural and Urban Development. (Video). World Economic Forum, December 3, 2007.

James Cust, Anoop Singh and Karsten Neuhoff, Rural Electrification in India; Economic and institutional aspects of Renewables.  Department of Economics, University of Cambridge, December 2007.

Narayana N.R. Murthy, Chairman of the Board in Infosys give the first Michael Dell lecture, Do we need a flat world? University of Texas at Austin, November 2007.

Stefan Heng, India’s specialization in IT exports: Offshoring can’t defy grativity. Deutsche Bank Research, November 15, 2007.

David T. Coe, Globalization and Labour Markets: Policy Issues Arising from the Emergence of China and India. OECD, November 12, 2007.

Technology in India and China: Leapfrogging or piggybacking?  Economist, November 8, 2007.

Xenia Dormandy, India’s Foreign Policy. Belfer Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, November 5.

Amitabh Kundu, The future of India’s cities. Urban Age, November 2007.

R. Nicholas Burns, America’s Strategic opportunity with India. (video) Council on Foreign Relations, October 23, 2007.

Julian Barr, Settihalli Basavraj et. al. Country Study: West Bengal. Department of International Development, OECD, October 2007.

OECD, Economic Survey of India, 2007. OECD, October 2007.

Ryuichi Ushiyama, Signs of Structural Change in Indian Trade. Japan Center for Economic Research, September 27, 2007.

Prabhudev Konana, Leaders in India Need to Face Economic Truths. The Hindu, September 22, 2oo7.

Gideon Lundholm, Pipeline Politics: India and Myanmar. PINR, September 10, 2007.

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, India’s Middle Class Failure.  Prospect Magazine, September 2007.  

Hiroko Oura, Wild or Tamed?: India’s potential growth. International Monetary Fund, September 2007.

Michael F. Martin and K. Alan Kronstadt, India-US Economic and Trade Relations. CRS Report for Congress, August 31, 2007.

Nokia’s big plan for India. BusinessWeek, August 31, 2007.

Puja Awasthi, Caste discrimination persisting in Uttar Pradesh’s schhool. India Together, August 17, 2007.

Ramachandra Guha, An unlikely nation. NewStatesman, August 2, 2007.

Mohammed Amin, Labour Regulation and Employment in India’s Retail Stores. The World Bank, August 2007.

Wendy Olsen, Structure, Agency and Strategy Among Tenants in India. Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, July 31, 2007.

Harsh V. Pant, India’s Interests at Stake in Relationship with China. PINR, July 30, 2008.

Wendy Olsen and Daniel F. Neff, Informal Agricultual Work, Habitus and Practices in an Indian Context. Global Poverty Research Group, July 2007.

Parthapratim Pal and Jayati Ghosh, Inequality in India: A Survey of recent trends. Economic and Social Affairs, United Nation, July 2007.

Pritha Venkatachalam, Municipal finance systems in conflict cities: Case studies on Ahmedabad and Srinagar, India. Crisis States Research Center, London School of Economics, July 2007.

C. Veeramani, Sources of India’s Export Growth in Pre- and Post-Reform Periods. Economic and Political Weekly, June 23, 2007.

Manjeet N. Kripalani, India bureau chief for Newsweek and Adam Segal, author of “Digital Dragon” discusses whether India will elipse China.  Council of Foreign Relation, June 8, 2007.

Hélène Poirson, Country Study: India. IMF Research Bulletin. Vol.8. no.2. June 2007.

Gaobo Pang, Brian Pinto & Marina Wes, India Rising – Faster Growth, Lower Indebtedness. The World Bank Policy Research Working Papers, June 2007.

Sumantra Bose, Uttar Pradesh: India’s democratic landslip. OpenDemocracy, May 29, 2007.

Anne O. Krueger, The Missing Middle. Stanford University, May 18, 2007.

T.N. Srinivasan & Treb Allen, Some Aspects of the Trends in Employment and Unemployment in Bihar and Kerala since the Seventies. Stanford University, May 2008.

M. Sajjad Hassan, Understanding the breakdown in North East India: Explorations in state-society relations.  Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics, May 2007.

Kaushik Basu and Annemie Maertens, The Pattern and Causes of Economic Growth in India. Working Paper, Cornell University, April 2007.

Arvind Subramanian, The evolution of institutions in India and its relationship with economic growth. Peterson Institute for International Economics, April 2007.   

Hélène Poirson, Financial Market Implications of India’s Pension Reforms. International Monetary Fund, April 2007.

Nirvikar Singh, Fiscal Decentralization in China and India: Competitive, Cooperative and Market Preserving Federalism?  Stanford University, April 2007.

Charles F. Kramer, Shantayanan Devarajan and Nirvikar Singh, Is India’s High Growth Sustainable? The Brookings Institute, March 8, 2007.

Edward Luce, Promise and Peril for India in the 21th century. (Video). FORA TV / World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco, March 2, 2007.

Geeta Gandhi Kingdom, The Progress of school education in India. Department of Economics, Oxford University, March 2007.

Barry Bosworth and Susan M. Collins, Accounting for growth: Comparing India and China.  National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2007.

Pranab Bardhan & Dilip Mookherjee, Land Reform, Decentralized Governance and Rural Development in West Bengal. Stanford University, February 2007.

Video-discussion between Shivshankar Menon & R. Nicholas Burns discuss The United States, India and the World. Carnegie Endowment, February, 2007.

Jennifer Asuncion-Mund, India’s capital markets: unlocking the door to future growth. Deutsche Bank Research, February 14, 2007.

L. Lakshmanan, S. Chinngaihlian & Rajesh Raj, Competitiveness of India’s Manufacturing Sector: An Assessment of Related Issues. MPA, January 2007.

Jing-dong Yuan, The Dragon and the Elephant: Chinese-Indian Relations in the 21th Century.  The Washington Quarterly, vol.30. no. 3. Summer 2007. pp. 131-144.

C. Raja Mohan, Balancing Interests and Values: India’s Struggle with Democratic Promotion. The Washington Quarterly, Vol.30. no.3. Summer 2007. pp. 99-115.

R. Govinda and Madhumita Bandyopadhyay, Access to Elementary Education in India: Country Analytical Review. National University of Educational Planning and Administration. 2007.

Richard Herd and Sean Dougherty, Growth Prospects in China and India Compared.  The European Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 4. No.1. 2007. pp. 65-89.