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Aparna Pande is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at Boston University. Her areas of interest are Foreign Policy, security studies, Political Islam and South Asia.
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India-Iran Ties
Aparna Pande May 30, 2007 interacts: 19 Views: 2379One has the world’s second largest gas reserves and the other is one of the world’s largest gas importers.
Sanskritization, de-Sanskritization and Colonial Rule
Aparna Pande Apr 19, 2007 interacts: 103 Views: 8355The British did not ‘invent’ the caste system but what they did do was to make it the primary basis of social classification.
Is this Pakistan’s Democratic Revolution?
Aparna Pande Mar 20, 2007 interacts: 250 Views: 11177After almost seven years of arbitrariness, Musharraf’s attack on the judiciary has the potential of being the last straw that broke the camel’s back?
India: Is Growth Coming at Expense of Development
Aparna Pande Feb 21, 2007 interacts: 90 Views: 6891For the last two years the IMF and the World Bank have been warning India about the dangers of inflation.
India’s Foreign Policy: An Analysis
Aparna Pande Jan 15, 2007 interacts: 279 Views: 19867It is time for a reality check: A look within. India was a great civilization and has a great history. As Indians we are right to be proud of it. However, as Indians we must not forget what history teaches us: that humility not hubris is what makes you gr
Nehru’s Legacy: Time to pay tribute
Aparna Pande Jan 3, 2007 interacts: 868 Views: 48414The 77th anniversary of the declaration of Purna Swaraj, the 57th anniversary of India’s Republic Day – it is time to pay tribute to some one without whom India would not be what it is today: a global economic, military and political power.
India, Pakistan and the Kashmir dispute
Aparna Pande Dec 17, 2006 interacts: 427 Views: 29330The number of people who have died and who are still dying in order for us to hold on to our illusory ideals are not worth the ideals.
India-Pakistan talks: the endless cycle
Aparna Pande Nov 21, 2006 interacts: 492 Views: 28066The two countries agreed to set up a six-member panel to counter terrorism; A nuclear safety agreement was signed; However, no progress took place on reducing troops in Kashmir and in Siachen.
Indian Muslims
Aparna Pande Nov 7, 2006 interacts: 476 Views: 29698The Sachhar Committee report, to be released in end-November, states that the condition of the majority of Indian Muslims is worse than that of even the Dalits. It recommends, among other measures, an allocation of 15% of all government funds for schemes
Pakistan's Afghan Policy
Aparna Pande Oct 24, 2006 interacts: 492 Views: 34158Afghanistan was created as a buffer state between the British and Russian empires. The international boundary line between Afghanistan and the British empire, inherited in 1947 by Pakistan, is the Durand line. This line divided ethnic Pashtun tribes into
The Veil Issue, Once Again
Aparna Pande Oct 16, 2006 interacts: 24 Views: 2794Veils were worn by women in Europe during the Victorian era and earlier decades. Society did not institute a banning of veils, rather over a period of time society changed and the veil vanished. Similar is the case of the hijab and the burkha. Education,
The General and Kargil
Aparna Pande Oct 8, 2006 interacts: 325 Views: 23235Seven years later Gen Musharraf offers his version of the Kargil conflict and says it was a major victory for Pakistan both militarily as well as diplomatically.
Aparna Pande
- Articles on Chowk: 12
- First article: Oct 8, 2006
- Latest article: May 30, 2007
- Times read on Chowk: 244364
