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Analysis
Congress short of ideas
Absence
of charismatic leaders and a lack of vision for the country have
allowed groupism to proliferate in India's oldest political party.
Blaming factionalism for the Congress party's recent electoral
setbacks, as Sonia Gandhi has done, can be regarded as a somewhat
facile explanation. Internal rifts are in the party's genes and date
back a century to the clashes between ....More
Viewpoints
No defence with a weak economy
The
country has witnessed a steadily declining economy, a weakening of
the conventional defence capability and emergence of a directionless
foreign policy during the last several years.
World history is full of evidence that no country has been able to
maintain and sustain a deterrent defence and an independent foreign
policy with a weak economy that becomes ....More
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