| Title: | 21: Clean India! Miles to Go Before We Sweep? |
| Author/s: | Robin Jeffrey, Visiting Research Professor, ISAS |
| Abstract: | Everyone from Narendra Modi to the New York Times has pointed well-washed fingers at the sorry state of public sanitation and waste management in India. In his Independence Day speech on 15 August 2014, Prime Minister Modi vowed to create a Clean India, a Swachh Bharat, in which girls’ school would have usable toilets, the Ganga would be clean, rubbish would be cleared and pan stains would not mark the stairwells of public buildings. |
| Date: | 21 November 2014 |
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| Title: | 20: Representing Bangladesh: My Years at The UN |
| Author/s: | Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Principal Research Fellow, ISAS |
| Abstract: | The practice of the art of being a diplomat has always been fraught with great circumspection. It is one of the hallmarks, indeed mainstays of the profession. Anecdotes on this score abound. For instance there is this story of Talleyrand, the Grand Old Man of French diplomacy in the nineteenth century. As a retired person, but still very involved in domestic and foreign issues, he was entertaining guests one evening in his Paris apartment. The year was 1830, the month was February, and the second French Revolution was breaking out. There was noise of fighting, emanating from the streets below. Talleyrand walked the steps to the window, with some effort as he had a game foot, and looked down to see. "It seems we are winning!" he observed. "But who are WE, Excellence?" his visitors asked, somewhat puzzled. "Hush!" replied Talleyrand: "I shall tell you tomorrow!!" |
| Date: | 21 November 2014 |
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| Title: | 19: India’s Current Macroeconomic Situation |
| Author/s: | Duvvuri Subbarao, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, ISAS |
| Abstract: | The Narendra Modi Government in India has inherited a very challenging macroeconomic situation. |
| Date: | 8 July 2014 |
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| Title: | 18 : Youth and ‘Refo-lution’? Protest Politics in India and the Global Context |
| Author/s: | John Harriss, Visiting Research Professor, ISAS |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this paper is to set research on youth, social change and politics in India, conducted by the Singapore-based Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) in collaboration with partners in India, 2 into the context of the patterns and possibilities of what we may call the ‘protest politics’ of the present. The paper begins with commentary on the wider global context, where we observe apparently comparable patterns of political action, in which youth have been centrally involved. The parallels and similarities should not be emphasised too much, but the events appear to involve some combination of the following features: |
| Date: | 14 April 2014 |
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