Anand Kumar

The recent spate of violence in South Africa appears to be rooted in the country’s failure to fully transform itself in the post-apartheid era. If the government fails to effectively address the issue of rising unemployment and widening socio-economic inequality in the country, the violence is likely to recur from time to time.

• Anand Kumar |
• October 04, 2019 |
• IDSA Comments

Associate Fellow, IDSA and currently Visiting Professor and Chair (India Studies), Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Dr Anand Kumar’s article on the abrogation of Article 370, titled ‘Better late than never’ has been published by Daily Excelsior on August 27, 2019.

If anything, the abrogation of Article has only reduced chances of conflict with Pakistan. It will lead to improvement in situation in Kashmir. It will allow India to focus on other important things which an emerging power like India should do, writs Dr. Kumar.

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Associate Fellow, IDSA and currently Visiting Professor and Chair (India Studies), Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Dr Anand Kumar’s article on Pakistan, titled ‘Adopt A Pro-Active Policy’ was published in the April 2019 issue of Defence and Security Alert (DSA).

Analysing India’s approach towards terrorism in Pakistan the article insists that India has to take the lead in defeating Pak-sponsored terror and other hostile designs. This would require India to follow a proactive Pakistan policy. The present policy of reacting to Pakistan with some retaliatory strikes after Pak-sponsored terror would only have limited impact.

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Associate Fellow, IDSA and currently Visiting Professor and Chair (India Studies), Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Dr Anand Kumar’s article on India’s air strikes on Pakistan, titled ‘Retaliatory strike just a short-term measure’ was published in The Tribune on March 06, 2019.

India should develop a proactive Pakistan policy. Its ad hoc and reactive policy would endanger its own security and prosperity. The international community can at best sympathise with India after every Pakistan-sponsored terror attack. The onus is on India to find a solution to this long-standing problem, writes Dr Kumar.

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Associate Fellow, IDSA and currently Visiting Professor and Chair (India Studies), Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Dr Anand Kumar’s article on Pak-sponsored terror, titled ‘Surgical strike not an answer to Pak terror’ was published Rediff.com on February 21, 2019.

India has to fight its own war against the rogue State and the evil forces nurtured by it,' argues Anand Kumar in the article

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With John Bolton conceding that the US has limited resources to compete with the tens of billions of dollars that China is pouring into Africa, it is not clear how effective America’s new Africa strategy would prove to be in containing China.

• Anand Kumar |
• January 09, 2019 |
• IDSA Comments

Associate Fellow, IDSA and currently Visiting Professor and Chair (India Studies), Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Dr Anand Kumar’s article on Sheikh Hasina’s victory in Bangladesh Parliamentary Elections in December 2018, titled ‘Bangladesh rejects politics of chaos’ was published in Rediff.com on January 08, 2019.

Bangladeshis are unwilling to give up peace and growing incomes for the chaos witnessed during the BNP-led four-party alliance rule, says Dr Kumar.

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Associate Fellow, IDSA and currently Visiting Professor and Chair (India Studies), Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Dr Anand Kumar’s article on India-Maldives relations, titled ‘India, Maldives rebalance ties’ was published the Deccan Herald on December 25, 2018.

Dr Kumar analyses The India-Maldives bilateral relationship in the article, which suffered greatly during the previous regime of Abdulla Yameen. The relations between the two countries is again looking up with the coming to power of Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, who had contested the recent election as the joint opposition candidate.

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Boko Haram’s resurgence might affect the holding of credible polls in parts of northeast Nigeria in the upcoming February 2019 general elections.

• Anand Kumar |
• December 11, 2018 |
• IDSA Comments

Associate Fellow, IDSA and currently Visiting Professor and Chair (India Studies), Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Dr Anand Kumar’s article on the Maldives, titled ‘Nasheed’s return: China too deeply entrenched in the Maldives now’ was published in National Herald on November 09, 2018.

The article analyses the impact of political transition in the Maldives on the ongoing Chinese projects and insists that while both Nasheed and Solih have stated that they would be revisiting Chinese projects, it’s unlikely that any major Chinese project be scrapped.

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