SUBCONTINENT - ASIA - WORLD: April 2008

23 April, 2008

Asian and global power struggle

Contained by China - The border dispute is an intentional thorn in India’s side (PDF)
by Nitin Pai in Pragati - The Indian National Interest Review (July 2007)

Dealing with China’s power projection - A rising China will not tolerate a rising India as a peer competitor (PDF) by Harsh V Pant in Pragati - The Indian National Interest Review
(April 2008)

Here be dragons - John Gittings assesses a selection of recent books on China, the emerging powerhouse of commerce - Guardian

The rebalance of power - Victor Mallet reviews four books on the new Asia - FT

After America - Is the West being overtaken by the rest? - by Ian Buruma, a review of several books on the coming world order - New Yorker

2point6billion.com - Emerging Asia. 40% of the world's population. 100% relevant.
China Briefing - India Briefing - Vietnam Briefing

Racism, the Raj and Kipling

Racist Raj?

Henrik Bering on The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour and Sahib: The British Soldier in India by Richard Holmes - Hoover Institution - Policy Review

Rudyard Kipling unburdened - by Roger Kimball in The New Criterion

It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. — George Orwell, 1942

Kipling Sahib: India And The Making Of Rudyard Kipling - by Charles Allen - review in SMH

Kashmiri interest

Tibet ripples reach Valley

- on one of India's countless obscure micro-communities, the Tibetan Muslim refugees in Kashmir

Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful

- by William Dalrymple in NYRB - partly a review of The Arts of Kashmir Catalog by Pratapaditya Pal of a recent exhibition at the Asia Society and Museum, New York City

Climate, Development, Tribals, Wildlife

Waterworld - Robert D. Kaplan in Bangladesh - The Atlantic

India and the Politics of Climate Change - by Dweep Chanana - The Discomfort Zone

Eviction Slip - Adivasis as "conservation refugees" - Guernica

Mining in Orissa threatens Dongria Kondh tribe - Telegraph

Tigerland - A journey through the mangrove forest of Bengal - New Yorker

India's tigers burning out - Asia Times

Some media, magazines, reviews

INDIA

Pragati - The Indian National Interest Review

HARDNEWS - India’s most significant magazine for the thinking Indian

New Delhi Review - Defence, Military and Strategic Affairs from the Indian Sub Continent

SOUTH ASIA

Global Voices Online - South Asia

Himal - Southasian (Nepal)

The South Asian (expat, leftist)

ALL ASIA

UPI Asia Online - columnists

Opinion Asia - Global Views on Asia - contributors

Asia Sentinel

Some blogs - serious and not so serious

A peep at the train (picture title).

The Indian Economy Blog

The Acorn

Pragmatic Euphony

Atanu Dey on India's Development

India's Naxalite Rage

Chapati Mystery

India Uncut

All Things Pakistan

Scenarios - 5 x Robert D. Kaplan

New Balance of Power - summary of address at FPRI

India is focused on and obsessed with China, he said. It used to be compared with Pakistan, and India’s elite used to be obsessed with the threat from Pakistan. That has changed. They are now obsessed with the competition with China, and India is one major place where President Bush enjoys popularity, even among the intellectuals, the writers, journalists.

China Rising - sort of interview - in National Post, Canada

'The Ghost War' - on future asymmetrical war with China - book review in IHT

Equal Alliance, Unequal Roles - on NATO's future - op-ed in NYT

Winning Will Resonate - on Iraq - in American Interest

Some roundup for news and stories around the region

A few useful sites - from the main sites you can also find roundups for other regions, countries and issues.

The India page from NYT's Blogrunner

The India page from Newsvine

The India tag page from China Digital News - for India-related China-stories

Orwellian newspeak - small wars and long wars. The roundup and blog page from Small Wars Journal which is not so unlike the Long War Journal. Both are conflict and security focused and represent a semi-official US military and and foreign policy point of view. The SWJ is not bad for a quick overview.

09 April, 2008

Chateau de Bella Maharashtra

Italian grape harvest - a rural scene that doesn't look entirely un-Indian.

India develops a nose for wine - IHT
India wine currying world favor - Chicago Tribune

From indianwine.com
Indian Wine Portal
Indian Wine Grape Growing Region Map
Wine in India - a travel through time

From Sommelier India - The Wine Magazine
Indian Wine News - blog

Indian food and wine - blog

Indian wine - Wikipedia article

Globalization - India, China, Asia

The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East - by Kishore Mahbubani

Mao's Cultural Revolution paved path for today's prosperity in China -
interview with Kishore Mahbubani in NPQ

What Makes a Miracle: Some myths about the rise of China and India - by Pranab Bardhan in Boston Review

The 21st Century as Whose Century? - Journal of World-Systems Research (long and academic, pdf)

India's Trade Policy Choices - Carnegie Endowment

Global Indians

À propos Parag Khanna. Some of his more touristy travel articles were published in this diaspora magazine of which, it seems, either his wife or sister is the editor.

EGO Magazine - about

Jhumpa Lahiri's new book

Roots, migration and exile - interview in The Hindu
Migration, Assimilation, and Inebriation - interview in Bookforum
The Assimilation Artist - review in TNR

Pakistan

A New Deal in Pakistan - Dalrymple in NYRB

Pakistan's Badlands - Like the Wild, Wild West. Plus Al-Qaeda. - Nicholas Schmidle in WP

China and Pakistan: New Friends Can’t Compare - Willem van Kemenade in Yale Global

Was heißt Demokratie in Pakistan? - Georg Pfeffer in suedasien.info. If you google title and author, you'll have the option of choosing an English translation of the article in which his name then becomes pepper.