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Recent IiT Features

  • Challenging the Idea of India: Accommodating the Nagas

    For over sixty years, in few areas, has the idea of India been more strongly challenged as in the tiny state of Nagaland, located well east of Kolkata (Calcutta). It was here that the first shots for an independent breakaway nation were fired within a decade of India securing independence from Britain in 1947.

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  • Public Interest Litigation in India: Time for an Audit

    Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which aims to use the courts to advance social justice, began in India about thirty years ago when procedures for expanding access to justice were developed. The judiciary, aiming to recapture popular support after its complicity in Indira Gandhi’s declaration of Emergency rule, encouraged litigation concerning the interests of the poor and marginalized.

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  • India’s MMRCA Deal: Muddled Rationale, Costly Adventure?

    Although nowhere near as high profile or politically dramatic as the 2008 Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, India’s proposed $10 billion procurement of 126 medium multirole combat aircraft (MRCA) may have a much more profound impact on India’s strategic relations, particularly if a U.S. Platform – either Lockheed’s F-16 E/F or Boeing’s F/A-18 E/F – is selected as the winning bid.

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Vijay C. Advani
Executive Vice President, Global Advisory Services
Franklin Templeton Investments

Isher Judge Ahluwalia
Chairperson, Board of Governors
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations

Marshall M. Bouton
President
Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Richard F. Celeste
President, Colorado College and
US Ambassador to India, 1997-2001

Purnendu Chatterjee
Chairman
The Chatterjee Group

John Gilray Christy
Chairman
Chestnut Capital Corporation

Joseph W. Elder
Professor, Sociology and Languages & Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison

J. Dudley Fishburn
Chairman, Altria Group, Inc.
Director, HSBC Group
Former Executive Editor, The Economist

Peter F. Geithner
Advisor, Asia Center, Harvard University
Former Director, Asia Programs, Ford Foundation

Ishaat Hussain
Finance Director
Tata Sons

Devesh Kapur
(ex officio)
Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India

Raman Kapur
Chairman
Global Pharmaceutical Services

Charles R. Kaye
Co-President
Warburg Pincus LLC

Shiv V. Khemka
Vice Chairman
The SUN Group

Sreedhar Menon
Chairman, Strategic Advisor, and Equity Partner
Viteos Fund Services

Barbara Daly Metcalf
President Elect, American Historical Association, and Professor Emeritus, University of California Davis

Joydeep Mukherji
Director, Sovereign Ratings
Standard and Poor's

Ralph W. Nicholas
President, American Institute of Indian Studies and
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology & Social Sciences, The University of Chicago

Dhananjay M. Pai
Senior Vice President, CFO, COO
P. Schoenfeld Asset Management LLC

Ramanan Raghavendran
Managing Partner
Kubera Partners, LLC

Bruce O. Riedel
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Former Senior Director for Near East & South Asia Affairs, National Security Council, 1997-2001

Parag Saxena
Founding Partner & CEO
New Silk Route Partners; and
Founding Partner & CEO
Vedanta Capital

HE Meera Shankar
(ex officio)
Ambassador of India to the United States

Rajiv Sobti
Chief Investment Officer
Nomura Global Alpha

Sanjiv Sobti
Chairman
FIRE Capital Fund

Eswaran Sridharan
(ex officio)
Academic Director
University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India

Ashley J. Tellis
Senior Associate
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 

Honorary Life Members

† Robert F. Goheen (CASI Memoriam)
President Emeritus, Princeton University and
US Ambassador to India, 1977-80
Chairman Emeritus

Keshub Mahindra
Chairman
Mahindra and Mahindra Limited

 

Kapila Vatsyayan
Member of Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
Chairperson, India International Centre-Asia Project
Member of Executive Board, UNESCO