Traders, Pushers, Soldiers, Spies. A pivot for India’s Act-East policy. The gateway to a future of immense possibilities from hydrocarbons to regional trade over land and water that could create a new Silk Route. A bulwark against China. A cradle of climate change dynamics and migration. ‘Northeast’ India, the appellation with which India’s far-east is known, is all this and more. Alongside hope and aspiration, it is also home to immense ethnic and communal tension, and a decades-old Naga conflict and the high-profile peace process that involves four gateway states—Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam—and several million people. It’s among the most militarized zones in the world. It’s a playground of corruption and engineered violence. Only real peace, and calm in both Myanmar and Bangladesh, will unlock this Eastern gate. A keen observer and frequent chronicler of the region, Sudeep Chakravarti has for several years offered exclusive insights into the Machiavellian—Chanakyan—world of the Naga and other conflicts and various attempts to resolve these. He now melds the skills of a journalist, analyst, historian and ethnographer to offer inside stories and a ringside view to the tortuous, no-holds-barred attempts at resolving conflict. Employing a ‘dispatches’ style of storytelling, and interviews with rebel leaders, politicians, bureaucrats, policy makers, security specialists and operatives, gunrunners, ‘narcos’, peace negotiators and community leaders, Chakravarti’s narrative provides a definitive guide to the transition from war to peace, even as he keeps a firm gaze on the future. The Eastern Gate is a tour de force that captures
Pax Indica India and the World of the Twenty first Century
SHASHI THAROOR
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Indian Diplomacy Beyond Strategic Autonomy
ABHYANKAR RAJENDRA M.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
REIMAGINING INDIA UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF ASIAS NEXT SUPERPOWER
McKinsey & Company
SIMON & SCHUSTER INC.
India at Risk Misconceptions and Misadventures of Security Policy
JASWANT SINGH
RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT. LTD.
Immortal India Young Country Timeless Civilisation
AMISH TRIPATHY
WESTLAND BOOKS/NASADIYA TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
The Ambassadors Club The Indian Diplomat At Large
K.V. RAJAN
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS LIMITED
MODIS WORLD Expanding Indias Sphere of Influence
C. RAJA MOHAN
How India Sees The World From Kautilya to the 21st Century
SHYAM SARAN
JUGGERNAUT BOOKS/HARPER COLLING PUBLISHERS LIMITED
RSS 360 Demystifying Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
RATAN SHARDA
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Fill up your details to notify you when this book will be available