WILL THE WEST ENGAGE? After disappointing itself for decades, India is now on the verge of becoming a great power.
India won a gold medal in athletics after 52 years when Krishna Poonia won a Gold in Women’s Discus Throw. One of the major achievement of the decade was the approval of the RTE bill by the Cabinet on July 2, 2009. Later on, Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha passed the bill on July 20 and August 4, 2009 respectively.
After more than a half century of false starts and unrealized potential, India is now emerging as the swing state in the global balance of power.
Finally, the Cold War, the onset of which quickly followed India's independence, pushed India into the arms of the Soviet Union in response to Washington's support for Pakistan and China—and thus put the country on the losing side of the great political contest of the second half of the twentieth century.
2010 – India won 101 medals in Common Wealth Games. Everyone remembers that India hosted the 2010 Common Wealth Games in Delhi, but mostly for the wrong reasons. However, it is also important to take note that we won 101 medals, including 38 gold, and acknowledge the hard work put in by the athletes.
It’s been 67 years since we got independence. We have gained some things and lost some. Every year we start afresh and promise to bring a change. India as a country has also traveled a long way since its independence. While it made a lot of mistakes, it also got a lot of things right. Lets refresh our memories of some of India’s greatest achievements in the decade spanning 2005-2014.
In spite of not meeting the expectations, the agreements between the two nations limit trade across the pass to 29 types of goods from India and 15 from the Chinese side. The opening also shortens the travel distance to important H indu and Buddhist pilgrimage sites in the region.
The mountain pass in the Himalayas that connects Sikkim and Tibet is one of the three open trading border posts between China and India. It was sealed by India after the 1962 Sino-Indian War. The pass was reopened in 2006 which allowed various bilateral trade agreements between the two regions.
India’s last polio case was reported in West Bengal in January 2011 when a young girl was paralyzed by polio. Since then no other such case has been reported. In March 2014, The World Health Organisation certified the South-East Asian region – which includes India, a polio free region.
What can be considered as one of the most powerful tool for Indian citizens, was passed by Parliament on 15 June, 2005 and came fully into force on 13 October, 2005. The act aims “to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens” and replaces the erstwhile Freedom of Information Act, 2002. RTI is active in all states and union territories of India except Jammu and Kashmir.
The spacecraft lifted off from from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 2.38 pm. Mangalyaan entered Mar’s Orbit on September 24, 2014, making India the first Asian country and only the fourth country in the world to enter the Mars orbit in its first attempt.
India’s pivotal role in the Indo-Pacific will be bolstered through its co-ownership of the institutions created by the developed world and in making them work in coherence with the new institutions such as the New Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank, in which India has significant stakes.
India's future as a world power depends on 4 key relationships. The Indo-Pacific region currently houses 65% of the world’s population. Image: REUTERS/Aly Song. In the 2040s, India is expected to surpass the United States (in PPP terms) and become the world’s second largest economy, behind China. Alongside this Indian emergence, ...
India’s geostrategic vision for the Indo-Pacific is unique. It rejects pitting China against the Quadrilateral Initiative in a zero-sum competition "between free and repressive visions of world order", as the American vision postulates. It also rejects the Chinese proposition, which creates perverse dependencies through economic statecraft and military coercion in a manner better suited to the Cold War era.
Sheer numbers alone elevate the importance of the Indo-Pacific and its influence across the world. It is now home to more than 65% of the world’s population who collectively produce more than 60% of global GDP. Over half the world’s trade passes through this region, and it hosts the fastest-growing armada of naval fleets along with seven nuclear ...
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), a seven-member organization meant to promote economic cooperation and trade, has turned into a forum for talk rather than action .
The new vision moves away from conceptions of non-alignment or strategic autonomy, tools of foreign policy that may have outlived their corresponding geopolitical utility.
Instead, India is positioning itself to take a different path - one that does not see the world in binaries, bifurcated between partners and allies on one side, and competitors and adversaries on the other. India offers an opportunity for engagement and dialogue to all states, big and small, democratic and authoritarian, advanced or developing.
Whether India becomes a great power depends on its ability to achieve multidimensional success in terms of improving its economic performance and wider regional integration, acquiring effective military capabilities for power projection coupled with wise policies for their use, and sustaining its democracy successfully by accommodating the diverse ambitions of its peoples.
All great powers historically rose not because they necessarily possessed large amounts of natural resources but because they consciously nurtured productive state-society relations. This means that they built effective states presiding over fecund societies, which enabled them to generate material capabilities faster and more effectively than their rivals. This process was often propelled by the presence of significant external or internal threats, or the ambitious aims of leaders or elites who sought to cement their power both within and outside the polity.
India’s efforts to limit marketization as an instrument of social change for either ideological or cultural reasons, consequently, have had the unfortunate effect of retarding the rationalization of its society in ways that constrain its capability to maximize power accumulation quickly.
Modi seeks to transform India from being merely an influential entity into one whose weight and preferences are defining for international politics.
Concerted marketization thus holds the promise of improving India’s trend growth rates, enabling appropriate redistribution when desirable, and empowering the state with the resources necessary to accomplish its international goals. Achieving durable success, however, will require strengthening India’s state capacity along multiple dimensions in order to mitigate the weaknesses, as one scholar put it, that affect “both [the country’s] ability to grasp the big strategic picture and [its] ability to get the nuts and bolts right.” 14
India survived the Cold War with its territorial integrity broadly intact, its state- and nation-building activities largely successful, and its political autonomy and international standing durably ensconced. In the process, it created some impressive industrial and technological capabilities, but its obsession with “self-reliance” unfortunately also ensured the relative decline of India’s economic weight in Asia and beyond.
Its early rhetoric was bold—championing, in former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s words, a “real internationalism” that promoted global peace and shared prosperity. 3 Yet its material weaknesses ensured that its strategic aims in practice were focused principally on protecting the country’s democracy and development from the intense bipolar competition of the Cold War. Although the character of India’s international engagement varied during these years, its broad orientation did not: remaining fundamentally conservative, India’s nonalignment aimed mainly at preventing U.S.-Soviet hostility from undermining its security, autonomy, and well-being at a time when the country was still relatively infirm.
Now India has a large military which is enough for a long time to defend itself against its enemies Pakistan and at least for some weeks to stand against China. But even here, just like in the economy example above, we see only the tip of the iceberg.
as we all know india is a over crowded country. This is the biggest obstacle in a way of becoming superpower. by 2025, India will become the world’s most populous nation.
In order for India to be a global power in the 21st century, it would need to develop its military capabilities . Also India does not have a strong weapons manufacturing industry, so it imports an overwhelming amount of its sophisticated military hardware from abroad, mostly from Russia. Moreover, India’s existing conventional military equipment is in severe need of modernisation.
Nearly 230,000 people died in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, making it one of the deadliest disasters in modern history.
Fast facts: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 1 The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, which caused the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, is estimated to have released energy equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. 2 In Banda Aceh, the landmass closest to the quake’s epicenter, tsunami waves topped 100 feet. 3 The tsunami’s waves traveled across the Indian Ocean at 500 mph, the speed of a jet plane. 4 The 2004 Indonesia earthquake caused a shift in the Earth’s mass that changed the planet’s rotation. 5 Total material losses from the tsunami were estimated at $10 million.
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Fast facts: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, which caused the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, is estimated to have released energy equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. In Banda Aceh, the landmass closest to the quake’s epicenter, tsunami waves topped 100 feet.
Only three weeks after the tsunami, representatives of 168 nations agreed to the Hyogo Framework for Action, which pa ved the way for global cooperation for disaster risk reduction. Since then, ocean floor earthquake sensors have been installed to trigger early warnings, and many local communities have been trained in evacuation and disaster response.
Her older son, Sadhur, 4, and daughter, Nirusha, 10, are sponsored by World Vision. They were unable to bring anything with them when they fled the massive waves. (©2004 World Vision /photo by Jon Warren) Gallery. Smiling, a World Vision -sponsored girl in Sri Lanka has just been reunited with her family after having gotten lost fleeing ...
A powerful undersea earthquake that struck off the coast of Sumatra island, Indonesia, set off the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami , also known as the Christmas or Boxing Day tsunami, on Sunday morning, Dec. 26, 2004. The magnitude 9.1 quake ruptured a 900-mile stretch of fault line where the Indian and Australian tectonic plates meet. It was a powerful megathrust quake, occurring where a heavy ocean plate slips under a lighter continental plate.
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