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Re-imagining the Indus: Mapping Media Reportage in India and Pakistan
Samir Saran and Hans Theting
21 December 2011
Water shortage has become a subject of intense public debate in the present political narrative on resource management and riparian rights. In an attempt to discern the divergence on core issues and mainstream media reporting.
 
Changing Tracks in Uttar Pradesh: Strategies Revisited
Saurabh Johri
01 December 2011
Switching Tracks for a New Uttar Pradesh is a unique book which analyses the situation in Uttar Pradesh not limiting its scope to just "what needs to be done" but goes on to the next level of "how it needs to be done". The book has prioritized some key areas of reforms and has suggested models to trigger large scale reforms in the state.
 
Caliphate's Soldiers: Lashkar-e-Tayyeba's Long War
Wilson John
01 December 2011
This book gives a fascinating insight into one of the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, providing lucid details on its operations, funding and world-wide network. On the third anniversary of the Mumbai attacks, this book serves as a reminder of the clear and present threat which continues to be posed by the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) to India and the world.
 
ORF China Studies Series
Editor: M. Rasgotra
12 October 2011
The ORF China Studies Series is an effort to analyse China's economic, political and military trajectory in a sustained and dispassionate manner and create a body of insightful work which will be useful to scholars, policy makers, journalists and all those interested in knowing China better.
 
Health care Delivery in Orissa: An Exploratory Study
Sarit Kumar Rout
19 April 2011
The Indian health system is facing multiple challenges in terms of increasing access and providing quality care to large sections of people. In course of time, the complexities have gone up with rising HIV aids, life style diseases like cardio vascular diseases, diabetics, and a number of environmental and pollution related infections affecting millions of people staying in urban locations.
 
Navigating the Near: Non-traditional Security Threats to India, 2022
Sunjoy Joshi, Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, Wilson John, Lydia Powell and Samir Saran
19 April 2011
National Security is most often thought of in terms of political and military threats to the State-either from other States or geo-strategic alliances. Given such a framework, both the challenges as well as the responses have for long been viewed in terms of military force or coercive ability of the adversary.
 
Counter-Terrorism in South Asia
ORF-Heritage Foundation Dialogue, 2010
16 March 2011
ORF has launched a new book -- Counter Terrorism in South Asia. The book, released by Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, is a collection of papers and proceedings of the ORF-Heritage Foundation Counter Terrorism Dialogue held in Delhi last year.
 
Radical Islam: Perspectives from India and Russia
Vikram Sood & Sergey Kurginyan
10 January 2011
This book is the result of a collaborative effort by the Observer Research Foundation, Delhi and the Experimental Creative Centre, Moscow to bring together perspectives and viewpoints on "Radical Islam".
 
The United States and India: A History through Archives
Praveen Choudhry & Marta Vanduzer-Snow
Volume 1 & 2
10 January 2011
This two-part volume focuses on the 'Later Years': the Lyndon B. Johnson-Richard M. Nixon years (1965-1972), a time when Cold War politics had set in, and Cold War alliances were eveloving for both blocs.
 
Sustainable development and climate change
Editors, Sunjoy Joshi and Marlies Linke.
ORF-Academic Foundation 2011
05 January 2011
In this book, the authors explore the persistent dissonances in the climate debate with the aim of identifying the harmonies that can help the world compose a common sympathy that accounts for the concerns, expectations and aspirations of all stakeholders.
 
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