AUGUST 2014 ` 50 VOLUME 2 ISSUE 11 ÁèÌð ãñ´ àææÙ âð © Prometheus INDIA Unbound Feedback LETTERS MATTER NOTHING ON EDUCATION ? I am a student of International Relations and a regular reader of your maga- zine. Your July issue was quite awesome. And it was different from past issues. I have few suggestions which may enhance the readership of your magazine as well as coverage of more things. You should cover education on regular basis as today 65% of the population is youth and they want to know more opportu- nities in India as well as abroad. Same way you can carry information on best universities in the world especially the countries where number of Indians is quite high, suggest various course options and what’s new that are being intro- duced. I would like to leave a request. Being a hot season of the new govt., I would like to know more on the the various budgets that were released. Deepak Knandekar, Pune, Maharashtra MORE PAGES ! WHY WASN'T POLITICS THE COVER STORY ? I have received your e-copy by mail. I read your magazine rather regularly. The whole magazine is quite a bunch of readable material. As usual, from the time I started read- The cover story this time on Vishal Sikka was good though from my point of view the doings of ing, I couldn't stop reading unless I the new NDA Govt. Ought to have been the cover story. In this issue information on various reci- reached the last page, and found many pes of mangoes was interesting. Please do publish health-care tips in your magazine, it could be of things informative. I really appreciate good help for a wide range of your readers in personal health care. the efforts of the team and the editor of the magazine, but it will be really G. Sarthi, Ganngtok, Sikkim nicer if you increase the number of pages. Apart from that, the travelogue LESS ON COVER STORY, MORE ON OTHER SEGMENTS in particular makes us to feel India Its seems you have a fund crunch, because by ent recipes, fiction, sports, state issues, social almost firsthand even though we are the way you present content, pics and topics, responsibility, youth, etc. Your last issue looked far away from our homeland, and the they are at par with international magazines but a bit compromised, as the quality of photo- content and pictures are really good your publication is very thin. It compels me to graphs was not up to the mark. Please take care and breath-taking. One pain-point is think that you are perpetually short of funds. of these important things. There are so many that some columns are quite irregu- Mark my words, one day you will definitely get international organizations that are catering to lar in their appearance. Do ensure success. Another point, please do avoid making the needs of NRIs. 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PH-I NEW DELHI-110 028 @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FROM ACROSS THE BORDER NRI ACHIEVERS august 2014 42 6 ÁèÌð ãñ´ àææÙ âð Editorial HOPE FLOATS ? he month of July saw the new NDA government revealing the broad outlines of its economic agenda for the year dur- ing the Budget Session of the Parliament, beginning with the Rail Budget and culminating in the union budget. Talk Tof bitter pills aside, one could perceive faint threads of fiscal pru- dence overshadowing populism, as major announcements were sans the usual populist takeouts bandied about in budget presentations of yore, marking a departure in approach from blatant populism to pragmatic realism. How much will come of it still remains to be seen, as implementation now comes centre stage, even as we understand that this budget is a mere levelling of the playing ground before the February 2015 budget. While the government took a cautiously soft approach on Railways by raising passenger fares and freight tariff a fortnight before the bud- get date instead of including it in the budget itself, populist concerns over some of the states going to the polls did force the government to pull-back hikes in suburban season tickets. Next came the Economic Survey, which set the tone and delineated a course for sustainable re- covery for the economy, followed by the maiden NDA union budget. Our Cover Feature in this edition charts the unravelling trajectory of India's new foreign policy that was initiated by PM Narendra Modi even as he took oath at Rashtrapathi Bhavan on the 26th of May 2014, now 60+ days distant in the past. We explore the regional confla- grations and powerplays and the emerging scenarios that will flavour and influence India's options in ensuring regional peace, stability, economic prosperity and growth in a relative tension free world. 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[email protected] www.facebook.com/nriachievers august 2014 NRI ACHIEVERS ÁèÌð ãñ´ àææÙ âð 7 News & Views INDIA STANDS ALONE AT WTO TALKS The world's top economies recently pushed India on the sched- uled rollout of trade facilitation agreement (TFA), while mere- ly assuring that its concerns over food subsidy would be ad- dressed. The TFA, announced in the Bali declaration, was to be finalized by July 31, while the issue of subsidy caps and food security that India is pushing for has a 2017 deadline. India is keen that its food security concerns be addressed along with TFA, fearing that it may have to give more concessions later to get WTO to agree to its demands. But there appeared to be little support for India despite its threat to hold up talks. After a meeting of the G-20 trade ministers, Australian minister for trade and investment Andrew Robb said all the countries, in- cluding India, re-committed themselves to the Bali package and there was 'no dissent on the significance of TFA and the timelines.' The categorical statement from the host country are decided during the coming three years. The ministerial came in the backdrop of India's strong push that the trade gathering saw the US, EU and others announce major contri- agreement and the issue of food security be decided side by butions to help developing economies absorb the cost of putting side, betraying New Delhi's concerns that its 'aye' on TFA now in place the processes to improve efficiency for trade as part of may leave it without a 'bargaining chip' when food subsidies the TFA.