The Politics of Energy | Shashi Tharoor
The global politics of energy can no longer be ignored. In late 2011 the State Department created a Bureau of Energy Resources to focus exclusively on energy, a sign of the growing importance of...
Author: The Kootneeti Team
Connecting Diverse North-East within and to the mainland
North East presents a huge potential in terms of the contribution it can make to the country. However, historically, and unfortunately even since independence, the region has been administered in relative isolation. Further, this region...
Offsetting the Cost of Extending Arms: An analysis of the Act East Policy
Connectivity, Commerce and Culture are the ‘three C’s’ of the Act East policy (AEP), for which the Indian state is expending such effort. However, a rise in all three C’s will be severely bottlenecked,...
The Organic Hub of India : Asthalakshmi States
Northeast cannot compete with states like Punjab or those along the Gangetic plains in terms of production. In Assam despite having fertile soil, the cropping intensity is very less and agriculture is mostly monocropping....
Five ideas for a Developed North East by 2030 | K Yhome
One can only say that the people of North East are not the only ones carrying ‘geographical tags’ as people from other parts of the country have tags such as ‘South Indian’, ‘North Indian’,...
Five ideas for a developed NE by 2030 | Pradip Phanjoubam
The major trade routes are still the sea routes, and the percentage share of this trade the Northeast gets is still very little. If this is to improve, one of the thrust areas will...
Five ideas for a Developed North East by 2030 | Dr Rashmi Baruah
Agriculture is the mainstay of the North-East economy. This sector accounted for close to 30 percent of the region’s National Skills Development Programme (NSDP) and is a major source of employment and livelihood for...
A Football Match Which Started a War in Central America
Under such conditions, the players from Tegucigalpa did not, understandably, have their minds on the game, after El Salvador team lost the second match 3-0. “They had their minds on getting out alive. We’re...
Vrindavani Vastra – A Kohinoor From The North-East India
The Vrindavani Vastra quite literally means ‘the cloth of Vrindavan’. This was created in Assam in northeast India sometime in the late 17th century. It was made of woven silk with scenes from the early life of Lord Krishna during the...
A Schindler From The East | Chiune Sugihara’s Heroic Act of Rescuing More Than 10,000 Jews in Lithuania
For the people who are in the professions of power, the first thought in the mind in times of trouble and tragedy is to save their own skin. Those are rare who risk their...
