Journalist, author, lawyer, diplomat, and one of India’s most irreverent wits, Khushwant Singh wrote a famous syndicated weekly column titled, With malice towards one and all. His column’s title comes to mind while writing this tribute to Bibek Debroy, who died on November 1 at the much younger age of 69. One of Maharashtra’s towering personalities of the past century …
Despite the controversy surrounding the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, the university will hold its convocation ceremony for graduating students on Saturday, October 5 on its campus. While a total of 113 students will be getting their bachelor’s degree, 294 students will be completing their master’s degree, and 9 students will be taking the PhD degree from the institute. …
The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics on Monday inked a strategic partnership with the state’s Maharashtra Institution for Transformation modelled after the NITI Aayog. Under the agreement, Gokhale institute will contribute its expertise in economics and public policy to support MITRA’s objectives. The memorandum of understanding was signed in the presence of chief minister Eknath Shinde, deputy chief minister …
City-based Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics is set to start “Geosquare”, a new centre for geopolitics and geoeconomics from the current academic year 2024-25, said Ajit Ranade, vice-chancellor, GIPE at a press meet on the institute campus on Friday. Ranade said, “A new master’s programme titled MSc Economics will commence from the new centre this academic year. The primary …
200pp, ₹499; HarperCollins It’s been over a year since the start of the ongoing China-India stand-off in eastern Ladakh that resulted in the deaths of 20 Indian and at least four People’s Liberation Army soldiers. By describing the political and geopolitical landscape leading up to the June 4 Tiananmen Square incident, he details the nuances of the party-state system’s decision-making …
More than three decades later, the Tiananmen Square incident refuses to be forgotten. Tiananmen Square: The Making of a Protest, is an eye-witness account by Vijay Gokhale, former foreign secretary of India. “The current politics of China cannot be properly grasped without a good understanding of the tumultuous events in Tiananmen Square in the fateful summer of 1989,” says Gokhale. …
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