Mr. Shivshankar Menon, India’s former National Security Advisor and Foreign Secretary, delivered the SAU Distinguished Lecture on 13 September 2018, at the Akbar Bhawan Campus in Chanakyapuri. A visiting professor at the Ashoka University, Mr. Menon has been a Fisher Family Fellow at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, and Richard Wilhelm Fellow at MIT in …
Education Minister of Nepal Gave Away The Degrees at the Third SAU Convocation New Delhi, 7 June 2018: South Asia has a common enemy called poverty and the young minds of the region should find ways and means to unleash the true potential of collective strength to transform the region through rapid economic growth and …
KRISHNA SHARMA There is no need for Nepal to have one sector-led growth policy. Our economy does not have to be a one-trick pony, and we have to move away from the ‘one size fits all’ recipe so as to achieve sustainable economic growth The growth projection of 5.89 per cent for the current fiscal …
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By Binit Gurung Another South Asia! Pathak, Dev Nath. 2017. Delhi: Primus Books. ‘Another South Asia!’ edited by Dev Nath Pathak makes a critical engagement with the questions about South Asia: What is South Asia? How can one pin down the idea of regionalism in South Asia wherein inter-state relations are often characterized by mutual …
KRISHNA SHARMA The functioning of the rental markets also depends on the presence/absence of other supporting or enabling factors such as extension services and so on. Access to extension may help the farm households to increase cropping intensity and diversify crops cultivation which in turn may necessitate the use of pump-sets Since the 1990s, the …
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Prabhash Ranjan Many pundits in India continue to gaze at the India-Israel relationship through the lens of Palestine. However, some argue that it is critical to de-hyphenate India’s relations with Israel and Palestine, a process that began in 1992 when New Delhi established diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv and which has gathered steam since then. …