Protests in Kashmir hearken back to Clinton's description that it might be “the most dangerous place on earth.”

A piece about hidden Maoists and "tracking" the Indian Separatist Rebels

This Action Plan from the Indian Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change outlines the steps towards sustainable development and international cooperation on the issue.

The Economist reports that China and India are increasingly keen to be seen to be tackling climate change. Though it is dirtier, China is making a more convincing show of action

India's carbon footprint is relatively trifling, but its energy demand is intense.

This report on financing energy efficiency draws on lessons from recent experience with a focus on Brazil, China, and India.

Simon Robinson writes about the Naxalites, a Maoist insurgency numbering between 10,000 and 20,000 armed fighters, who are consolidating power across India's poorest regions and posing "the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country," in the words of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

This working paper by Jeremy Carl, Varun Rai and David Victor discusses how India's continued economic success hinges on obtaining reliable and cost-effective energy supplies. Increasingly, those supplies depend on national and foreign delivery chains that are creaking and feared unreliable.

Naresh Fernandes examines the discrepancy that exists between the glowing reports of a booming Indian economy and increasing wealth versus the reality that most citizens of India live in poverty. Fernandes writes that Indian media cater more to the aspirations of the elite through aggressive advertising campaigns rather than acting as “the fourth pillary of democracy.”

A CRS Report for Congress explores the challenges and opportunities that the United States faces when pursuing bilateral and multilateral ties with Japan, Australia, and India.

Tackling climate change will involve fundamental economic restructuring of the world's systems of energy production, of transportation, of manufacturing, of resource extraction and harvesting. The International Institute for Sustainable Development writes a scoping paper for the Trade Ministers' Dialogue on Climate Change.

This article discusses India's reactions to its neighbor Pakistan when President Pervez Musharraf declared a national emergency.

The article discusses the implications of the Bush administration's reactions to Musharraf's steps on US-Indian relations.

This article from the Power and Interest News Report discusses India's foreign policy objectives in East and South East Asia.

This article looks at the gravestone market where Chinese firms begin to muscle out Indian companies.

In this policy research working paper, the World Bank aims to examine the resulting impact of climate change on hydropower projects. Three projects are considered: India, Sri Lanka, and
Vietnam.

Martha Nussbaum writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education  about the aftereffects of the 2002 riots in the Indian state of Gujarat and the lessons that should be learned from it:  "The forces that assail democracy are internal to many, if not most, democratic nations, and they are not foreign: They are our own ideas and voices, meaning the voices of aggressive European nationalism, refracted back against the original aggressor with the extra bile of resentment born of a long experience of domination and humiliation."

The US House of Representatives' Joint Economic Committee looks at the long-term viability of India's susained economic growth, in comparison to its peers.  

This report considers events in the five years that have passed since the 2002 communal violence in the Western Indian state of Gujarat in which more than 2,000 people were killed. Amnesty International says it remains concerned about the ongoing impact of that violence on the Muslim minority in Gujarat.

The Congressional Research Service examines U.S.-India relations in this report.