INDIA SHASTRA ·Reflections on the Nation in our Time by Tharoor, Shashi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Book Information Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction I. INDIA MODI-FIED

II. MODI’S INDIA AND THE WORLD

14. Modi and the Foreign Service 15. External Aptitudes: Time to Reform the IFS 16. Ab Ki Bar, Confused Sarkaar: The Foreign Policy U-turns 17. India and Afghanistan: Well Done, Sushmaji 18. President Xi or President Xxx? 19. Mr Modi Goes to Washington 20. Have We Forgotten Khobragade? 21. The Global Indian 22. India: The Unloved Giant?

III. THE LEGACY

23. The Ravages of Colonialism 24. Forgotten Heroes: India in World War I 25. The 1940s: Where It All Began 26. The Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi 27. Sardar Patel and the Hijacking of India’s History 28. What Swami Vivekananda Stood For 29. The Mystique of Gurudev 30. The Original Anna: The Life and Times of C.N. Annadurai 31. The Manmohan Legacy 32. Food Security and Land Acquisition 33. Congress—The Way Forward 34. India’s Economic Miracle 35. The End of the Nehruvian Consensus? 36. The Fall of an Old Retainer 37. Saint Antony and Secularism

IV. IDEAS OF INDIA

38. Democracy and Development: The Experience of India 39. Paradoxes of India 40. The Role of Civil Society in Law-Making 41. Politics and the Indian Middle-Class 42. The New Voter: From Khap to AAP? 43. India’s Disrupted Democracy 44. Time to Imagine a Presidential System? 45. India’s Obama Moment? 46. Preserving the Past

V. THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE

47. The Quest for Quality 48. Education in India 49. Towards a Knowledge Society: Higher Education in India 50. Stephania: The Quest to Excel 51. The Intangible Kerala Heritage 52. Soaring to the Future: India’s Martian Chronicles 53. Go East (and West), Young Man! 54. India’s Youth: Building a Nation, Seizing the World 55. The Sun Also Rises: Solar Energy for India 56. The Frugal Answer to India’s Doldrums 57. India’s Twitter Revolution 58. My.gov, Your Gov, E-Gov 59. The Network Age

VI. ISSUES OF CONTENTION

60. A Heart Divided: Ayodhya 61. India’s Free and Irresponsible Media 62. The Unwelcome Mat 63. Preserving Asylum in India 64. The Misfortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid 65. Concerned Authority, Concerned Populace 66. The Dark Truth about Black Money 67. The Unforgivable Horror of Torture 68. Kerala’s Economy: Emerging or Submerging? 69. Changing Bengal: The Way Forward

VII. A SOCIETY IN FLUX

70. Astrology and the Aspiring Indian 71. Of Clubs and Colonial Dress Codes 72. Health Minister, our Kids Need Sex Ed 73. Is Caste Back, or did it ever Disappear? 74. Delhi University’s FYUP Fiasco 75. Filling Stomachs and Minds: The Mid-day Meal Scheme 76. India’s Missing and Abused Women 77. Empowering Indian Women 78. Prohibition in Kerala 79. Minorities and Policing 80. Terrorism and India

VIII. INDIA BEYOND INDIA

81. Looking Back at 29 years as a UN official 82. Emerging Powers and Global Governance: India 83. Dilemmas of Global Governance 84. When Democracy is a Bad Idea: The ‘League of Democracies’ 85. Warring for Peace 86. How Relevant is Non-Alignment? 87. The Arab Spring, India and China 88. Globalization, Poverty and India 89. The Millennium Development Goals: Missing the Mark? 90. IMF: Insolvents May Flourish; India Must Fix! 91. Freedom of Expression and Communication Challenges in the Age of the Internet 92. Flying While Brown, and Other Joys of Airport Security 93. Cyber Security in Invasive Times 94. Losing our Heads to Kipling 95. Our Fondness for Fakes 96. How Proud Should We Be of Bobby Jindal? 97. The Politics of Energy 98. Kissing the Frog 99. Pandora’s Inbox 100. Birthdays: A Beastly Beatitude