AUTHOR'S BIO
Mira Kamdar
Mira Kamdar is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and a fellow at the Asia Society. She is the author of Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World.
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Time to Bring Mahatma Gandhi Back
Mira Kamdar Series: The Asian Century 2009-06-05Many believe that the unexpected landslide victory of India's Congress Party – with its commitment to secular values, economic growth, and helping the poor – provides a mandate to transform India into a great power. But, while the economic trajectory that Congress is plotting may well boost short-term growth, it is ultimately on a collision course with equity and sustainability.... read Comments: 2 Recommended: 0 Read: 15493
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Obama and India
Mira Kamdar Series: The Asian Century 2008-11-05For the Bush administration, the US-India relationship was solely strategic, aimed at enhancing both countries' military reach. President Obama must embrace a holistic vision of human security that focuses on global warming, the collapse of industrial agriculture, the widening income gap, conventional and nuclear arms in Asia, and ethnic and religious conflict.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 11866
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India’s Fiscal Follies
Mira Kamdar Series: The Asian Century 2008-04-01Successive Indian governments have embraced “poor-friendly” fiscal policies that deliver little real relief to those in need, particularly the rural poor. With a national election looming, the new budget for 2008-2009 promises more of the same.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 14795
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A Bollywood Bride for Sarkozy?
Mira Kamdar Series: The Asian Century 2008-01-21Nicolas Sarkozy's affaire de coeur with Carla Bruni has been a political disaster at home and a protocol nightmare abroad, first in Egypt, and soon in India. A lavishly exotic South Asian wedding in February could solve both problems.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 15488
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India’s Burma Dilemma
Mira Kamdar Series: The Asian Century 2007-10-10India is doing in Burma what the US and European countries have long been willing to do: trump rhetoric about democracy and human rights with policies that serve their strategic interests. If the EU and the US want India to act according to its stated moral values when these appear to conflict with its vital national interests, they had better be prepared to do the same.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 12910
