India Today: Issues Before the Nation: a Festschrift in Honour of Professor (Dr.) K. Raman Pillai [Hardcover]

India has been projected as an emerging great power in the world. Certainly, the nation is endowed with all the basic assets required for its realisation. India is a reservoir of a huge, intellectually gifted, man power and rich natural resources. Geo-politically, it enjoys a strategic position which few countries of the world can boast of. Above all, India is the largest democracy in the world. Yet, the puzzle is: what holds back India from wisely utilising all these basic assets and becomes a shining model of a great democracy, occupying a top slot in the human development index in the world? Is it being undermined from within by the Indian Quislings and Mir Jaffers at the behest of foreign vested interests? Or, are there other debilitating factors connected to state policies and institutional weaknesses, which also contribute to perpetuate this situation? Pertinent is also the question whether the country is taken away from the expected path of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, to a track of debilitating foreign dependency. Equally important is whether the Indian state is hollowed out, detrimental to the welfare of the marginalised people in society. This book examines the ground realities and put forward solutions to various current problems, for making India a great country in the world. About The Author:- B.Vivekanandan is former Chairman of the Centre for American & West European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Author of many books published in India, US, and UK, he is a recipient of Honorary Doctorate of Social Sciences, the highest honour of the Helsinki University, Finland. He is the first Indian to receive this honour from the University during the 350 years history of this award.R.K. Suresh Kumar, former Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Politics, University College, Trivandrum, is the author of several books, and has been the editor of two quarterly journals. Now he is the Editor of the quarterly journal Social Science in Perspective, published from Trivandrum.P. Sukumaran Nair, former Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science in NSS College, Pandalam, has several scholarly books to his credit. He is the Executive Editor of the quarterly journal Social Science in Perspective, published from Trivandrum. The Title 'India Today: Issues Before the Nation: a Festschrift in Honour of Professor (Dr.) K. Raman Pillai written/authored/edited by Prof.(Dr.)B.Vivekandan', published in the year 2014. The ISBN 9788121212311 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 384 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Political Science. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-