China’s pandemic management model relies on a heavy-handed application of quarantine and lockdown. There is an ongoing debate on the effectiveness and political implications of quarantines since the Ebola pandemic. ...
The two countries must work for ensuring adequate production and supply of medical equipment through enhanced protocols of channelization and also focus on collaborating the Indian strength of fiber to fabric and America’s technological superiority to extract amenable advantages. ...
The need for regulation of the digital intermediaries cannot be debated but the selection of an appropriate method for escalation still needs to be reassessed. The co-regulation model is a more dependable system of regulation as it allows the public and private players to work as collaborators resulting in cooperation between state, civil society, and market players. ...
India has had border disputes with almost all its bordering neighbours, and while it has achieved success in mitigating its land and water disputes with countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, it still faces tensions with Pakistan, Nepal and China. The India-Bhutan model cannot be applied across bilateral relations with other countries but few facets of the successful partnership in areas of development and economic activity can be incorporated. ...
Due to the health crisis generated by the COVID-19, people in bordering regions have been brought to face with some important choices. The first is between totalitarian surveillance and citizen empowerment as the state moves to introduce more restraining technologies. Though this is not fully possible in bordering regions, the other challenge to balance between local resources and their construction, to national reconstruction. ...
It is the widening gap and the massive accumulation of wealth that has left many with little and the few with many, the reason why we have to rely on their giving. These category of non-state actors are expected to take on a larger share of the accountability for the world problem after the state. ...
India’s aspirations to be a leading power in the Asia-Pacific and Russia’s matching influence in Eurasia and outer Europe well converge on common ground. Emerging regional context and shifting global narratives will potentially further deepen the relations between the two nations - more by values, history and soft power, rather than just through trade, defense and commerce. ...
It is necessary that countries realise that ignoring the migrants will not reduce their problems in any way. The COVID-19 has shown the world that all the countries are inter-linked and it is time, the governments take actions with this in mind. ...
The structural violence and stigma faced by sex workers in normal times itself, is humongous, and this multiplies in the crises that have been created by a health disaster. The need of the hour is to absorb the capacities and energies of sex workers within societal structures, so as to give them enough opportunity to sustain themselves. ...
Nepal-India-China Trilateralism and the Future of South Asian Integration
The formation of multiple sub regional initiatives and organization with India’s lead has further derailed if not damaged the process of wholesome regional integration. ...