Research and Reference

The Nine Lives Of Pakistan

Declan Walsh, the NYT's former Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of Pakistan through dramatic lives of nine individuals. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink—a place of creeping extremism and political chaos.

Cross Purposes: Understanding Misuse of FCRA by NGOs in India(Full Report)

This study by Milind Oak for a New Delhi based think tank India Policy Foundation is one of the rarest studies revealing misuse of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) in India.

Deendayal Upadhyay: A Multi-dimensional Personality(Birth Anniversary 25 Sep)

This is an edited version of the keynote address delivered by Atul Jain, General Secretary, DRI, in a virtual meet organised by the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Chair, Alagappa University, Tamil Nadu on 25 September, 2020.

Eyewitness To A Genocide: The United Nations And Rwanda

As United National Turns 75, Michael Barnett, former UN employee's expose' reignites the debate on the role and structure of United Nations and the urgent need to reform it.

Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020(Full Text)

The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020 was passed in Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament. The Bill proposed to streamline the use of foreign funding in the NGO sector

All That You Want To Know About India’s Official Secrets Act

All that you want to know about the Official Secrets Act(OSA) is here. This law has been in news with arrest of an Indian journalist, a Chinese woman and her Nepalese accomplice

Hinduism And The Ethics of Warfare In South Asia:Debunking Western Myths

Kaushik Roy challenges the view, common among Western scholars, that precolonial India lacked a tradition of military philosophy in his book. He traces the evolution of theories of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization

Why And How Islamist Terrorism Is On The Rise in Europe

Peter Nesser explains why and how Islamist terrorism in Europe is on the rise, as evidenced by the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, the grisly beheading of a UK serviceman in 2013 and the shooting spree in Toulouse and Montauban.

Lin Zhao: The Dissident Who Wrote Blood Letters in China

Lian Xi tells the staggering story of a dissident who wrote letters against Mao's regime in her own blood before being executed. Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao.

God’s Bankers: A History Of Money and Power At The Vatican

God’s Bankers is a rare exposé by Gerald Posner and an astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, mysterious deaths of private investigators, and questionable suicides.

Batla House Encounter: An Insider’s Minute-By-Minute Account

Karnal Singh, the police officer who spearheaded the operations in Batla House in September 2008, narrates a minute-by-minute account of the chain of events

“Khalistan: A Project Of Pakistan” (A Report By Macdonald-Laurier Institute)

In “Khalistan: A Project of Pakistan” from Macdonald-Laurier Institute, veteran journalist Terry Milewski reveals the concept of Khalistan as a project of Pakistan