Vivekananda International Foundation calling the shots in Defence Ministry?

[sid426]

yup.VIF is supported by RSS indirectly.Make no mistake,VIF is a force to reckon with and I would aptly term it as India's Illuminati.

 

[sid426]

btw..the twitter handle is already creating ripples!

True lies LutyensSpice claims to reveal dirty secrets of Delhi power corridors

 

[ranjeet]

btw..the twitter handle is already creating ripples!

True lies LutyensSpice claims to reveal dirty secrets of Delhi power corridors

and your point is?

 

[sid426]

Think about it..Let your brains come out of the deep slumber

 

[Tshering22]

Is it true that VI is supported/sponsored by the RSS???

Not that I have any problem with that, am a proud supporter of RSS myself and feel that both RSS and VI are necessary for tha nation.

That's what they say. The ideology is same for both.

Personally, I and my folks have no problems with this ideology. We welcome it as well.

Don't know about sponsoring.

 

[jha]

Someone said Doval is No. 2 in Modi government not Rajnath/Sushma/Jaitley.. I almost believe him.
If VIF is calling shots in MoD, I am pretty sure armed forces will have best 5 years in Independent India.

 

[Darmashkian]

Someone said Doval is No. 2 in Modi government not Rajnath/Sushma/Jaitley.. I almost believe him.
If VIF is calling shots in MoD, I am pretty sure armed forces will have best 5 years in Independent India.

Doval may be No.2 when it comes to matters relating to defence and national security, otherwise in the other cases(finance, dealing with MPs....etc) it must be Arun Jaitley.

That's what they say. The ideology is same for both.

Personally, I and my folks have no problems with this ideology. We welcome it as well.

Don't know about sponsoring.

Check the paragraph below. It seems RSS had a role in it's formation.

I think RSS does sponsor/fund VI, but deals with it outside the public/media glare.
From Vivekananda to PMO stars: Meet Modi's favourite think tank - Firstpost

"In its website, the organisation, located in Delhi's diplomatic enclave of Chanakyapuri, describes itself as an independent, non-partisan institution, but it is a project of the Vivekanada Kendra, an organisation set up by RSS idealogue Eknath Ranade. At the foyer of VIF hangs a portrait of Ranade, Business Standard reports.

 

[Aamna Ali]

This is what VIF Advisory Board consists of :

1.
General (Retd) V N Sharma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
PVSM, AVSM, ADC
General V N Sharma served as the 17th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from June 1988 to June 1990. Earlier, he was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command and Honorary Army ADC to the President of India. A reputed armoured expert, the General often articulates his views on military and strategic issues -- such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Indian sub-continent.

2.http://www.vifindia.org/author/shri-a-k-verma
A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Former Secretary
Research and Analysis Wing), Cabinet Secretariat
Anand Kumar Verma headed India’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) from 1987 to 1990. A noted expert on security and strategic issues, he has been writing extensively in the last few years.

3.
Prakash Singh (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Former Director General, Border Security Force
Prakash Singh was Director General of the world’s largest paramilitary force the BSF, and, prior to that, the DGP of Assam and Uttar Pradesh. He was awarded a Padmashri for his contribution towards national security in Punjab. He is widely respected as an expert on internal security. Naxalism is his focus area. Recently, a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) by Singh led to a landmark judgment by the Supreme Court of India on police reforms.

4.
Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy (Retd) (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
PVSM, AVSM, VM& Bar, ADC
Air Chief Marshal Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy served as the 19th Chief of Air Staff from December 2001 to December 2004. He distinguished himself in combat during the 1965 India-Pakistan war and went on to specialise in Electronic Warfare (EW). In fact, he had the unique distinction of having raised and commanded the first EW Squadron of the IAF. Since his retirement, Krishnaswamy has kept himself occupied with the discourse on defence and strategic Issues. Recently, he helped prepare a report by a Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) taskforce on national security and terrorism.

5.
Kanwal Sibal, Dean, Centre for International Relations and Diplomacy, VIF
Former Foreign Secretary
A 1966 batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service, Kanwal Sibal held various ambassadorial and senior diplomatic appointments in his long and illustrious career. Most notably, following his retirement as Foreign Secretary, he was India’s Ambassador to Russia from 2004 to 2007. Today, Sibal is a well-known commentator and writer on the issues concerning India’s relations with other nations.

6.
Prof. R Vaidyanathan (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Professor of Finance
Professor of Finance and UTI Chair Professor in the area of Capital Market Studies at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, R Vaidyanathan is a member of the Advisory Committee on Secondary Markets as well as Derivatives (Risk Management Group) of the Security Exchange Board of India. He is a Vice President of the Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, Singapore. He has also published extensively about the role of Unincorporated Sector in the Indian Economy.

7.
General (Retd) Shankar Roychowdhury (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
PVSM,AVSM, Former chief of Indian Army
General Shankar Roychowdhury served as the 18th Chief of Army Staff (November 22,1994-September 30, 1997). An alumnus of St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata, he has received the Param Vishisht Seva Medal for distinguished service to the Indian Army and the nation. He also became a member of the Rajya Sabha after his retirement.

8.
Lt Gen (Retd) SK Sinha (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir and Assam

9.
Arif Mohammad Khan (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Former Cabinet Minister


This is what VIF Executive council consists of :

1.
Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Former Director of Intelligence Bureau
A highly decorated IPS officer of Kerala Cadre he retired as Director Intelligence Bureau in 2005.
Doval is an IPS officer from the 1968 batch of the Kerala cadre. He was actively involved in the anti-insurgency operations in Mizoram, Punjab and Kashmir
During the Mizo National Front (MNF) insurgency, Doval won over six of Laldenga's seven commanders. He spent long periods of time incognito with the Mizo National Army in the Arakan in Burma and inside Chinese territory. From Mizoram, Doval went to Sikkim where he played a role during the merger of the state with India.
In Punjab he was behind the rescue of Romanian diplomat Liviu Radu and the success of Operation Black Thunder. Doval was actually inside the Harimandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab, in 1989 during Operation Black Thunder, when security forces were charging in to flush out terrorists from there. He is said to have planned out the Punjab state elections of 1992.
Doval spent six years in Pakistan. He went to Kashmir in 1990 and persuaded militants to become counter-insurgents targeting hardline anti-India terrorists. This set the way for state elections in Jammu and Kashmir in 1996. Later, he was posted in the Indian High Commission in London, UK as a Minister.

Doval was India's main negotiator with the hijackers of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in Kandahar in 1999. Uniquely, Doval has the experience of being involved in the termination of all 15 hijackings of Indian Airlines aircraft from 1971-1999. In the Headquarters, he headed IB’s operations wing for over a decade and was founder Chairman of the Multi Agency Centre (MAC) and Joint Task Force on Intelligence (JTFI).

2.
Anil Baijal (Executive Council, VIF)
Former Home Secretary

Born on 16th October, 1946, Mr. Baijal joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1969. He retired from the service in October, 2006 as Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. While in that Ministry, he anchored the designing and roll-out of the flagship programme of Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) with federal grant equivalent of about US dollars 12 billion, for improvement of infrastructure and provision of basic services in urban areas of India.

3.
C D Sahay, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Former Secretary (Research and Analysis Wing), Cabinet Secretariat
C D Sahay joined the Indian Police Service in 1967 and moved to Delhi in 1975 to join the Research and Analysis Wing, India’s external Intelligence setup. He rose to head the organisation from 2003 till superannuation in 2005. He has decades of experience in dealing with national security issues and international terrorism. Sahay spends a great deal of time in delivering lectures on these subjects at various training institutions in India.

4.
Dr. A Surya Prakash, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Author and Scholar of contemporary studies
A.Surya Prakash: an author and journalist and a leading commentator on Indian politics and constitutional and parliamentary issues. He has held key positions in several print and electronic media organisations.

5.
Lt Gen (Retd) Gautam Banerjee, Executive Council, VIF
Former Chief of Staff (Central Command)

6.
Lt General R K Sawhney, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
PVSM, AVSM
Lt General (Retd) Ravi Sawhney is a former Deputy Chief of Army Staff and in-charge for UN forces deployment. He also held the crucial post of Director General Military Intelligence (DGMI) and also headed the Unified Command set up in Assam to tackle insurgency for over two years. After retirement, General Sawhney has been keeping an eye on Afghanistan and Burma and has been writing and speaking extensively on the defence matters.

7.
Nripendra Mishra (Executive Council, VIF)
Former Chairman, Telephone Regulatory Authority of India
An outstanding Indian Administrative Officer, Nripendra Mishra has been a Secretary to the Government of India. He held senior positions in Communications Ministry and Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

8.
TCA Rangachari, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
A career Foreign Service officer, he served as Ambassador to Algeria, Germany, France, and in other capacities in China, Pakistan and at the UN in New York.

He has held various positions in the Ministries of External Affairs and Finance of the Government of India in New Delhi.After leaving the Government, he was, till May 2014, the Director of the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.

He holds an MA degree in History from Hindu College, Delhi University.

He speaks Tamil, Hindi, English, Chinese and French.

 

[kbd-raaf]

This is what VIF Advisory Board consists of :

1.
General (Retd) V N Sharma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
PVSM, AVSM, ADC
General V N Sharma served as the 17th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from June 1988 to June 1990. Earlier, he was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command and Honorary Army ADC to the President of India. A reputed armoured expert, the General often articulates his views on military and strategic issues -- such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Indian sub-continent.

2.
A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Former Secretary
Research and Analysis Wing), Cabinet Secretariat
Anand Kumar Verma headed India’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) from 1987 to 1990. A noted expert on security and strategic issues, he has been writing extensively in the last few years.

3.
Prakash Singh (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Former Director General, Border Security Force
Prakash Singh was Director General of the world’s largest paramilitary force the BSF, and, prior to that, the DGP of Assam and Uttar Pradesh. He was awarded a Padmashri for his contribution towards national security in Punjab. He is widely respected as an expert on internal security. Naxalism is his focus area. Recently, a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) by Singh led to a landmark judgment by the Supreme Court of India on police reforms.

4.
Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy (Retd) (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
PVSM, AVSM, VM& Bar, ADC
Air Chief Marshal Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy served as the 19th Chief of Air Staff from December 2001 to December 2004. He distinguished himself in combat during the 1965 India-Pakistan war and went on to specialise in Electronic Warfare (EW). In fact, he had the unique distinction of having raised and commanded the first EW Squadron of the IAF. Since his retirement, Krishnaswamy has kept himself occupied with the discourse on defence and strategic Issues. Recently, he helped prepare a report by a Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) taskforce on national security and terrorism.

5.
Kanwal Sibal, Dean, Centre for International Relations and Diplomacy, VIF
Former Foreign Secretary
A 1966 batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service, Kanwal Sibal held various ambassadorial and senior diplomatic appointments in his long and illustrious career. Most notably, following his retirement as Foreign Secretary, he was India’s Ambassador to Russia from 2004 to 2007. Today, Sibal is a well-known commentator and writer on the issues concerning India’s relations with other nations.

6.
Prof. R Vaidyanathan (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Professor of Finance
Professor of Finance and UTI Chair Professor in the area of Capital Market Studies at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, R Vaidyanathan is a member of the Advisory Committee on Secondary Markets as well as Derivatives (Risk Management Group) of the Security Exchange Board of India. He is a Vice President of the Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, Singapore. He has also published extensively about the role of Unincorporated Sector in the Indian Economy.

7.
General (Retd) Shankar Roychowdhury (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
PVSM,AVSM, Former chief of Indian Army
General Shankar Roychowdhury served as the 18th Chief of Army Staff (November 22,1994-September 30, 1997). An alumnus of St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata, he has received the Param Vishisht Seva Medal for distinguished service to the Indian Army and the nation. He also became a member of the Rajya Sabha after his retirement.

8.
Lt Gen (Retd) SK Sinha (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir and Assam

9.
Arif Mohammad Khan (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Former Cabinet Minister


This is what VIF Executive council consists of :

1.
Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Former Director of Intelligence Bureau
A highly decorated IPS officer of Kerala Cadre he retired as Director Intelligence Bureau in 2005.
Doval is an IPS officer from the 1968 batch of the Kerala cadre. He was actively involved in the anti-insurgency operations in Mizoram, Punjab and Kashmir
During the Mizo National Front (MNF) insurgency, Doval won over six of Laldenga's seven commanders. He spent long periods of time incognito with the Mizo National Army in the Arakan in Burma and inside Chinese territory. From Mizoram, Doval went to Sikkim where he played a role during the merger of the state with India.
In Punjab he was behind the rescue of Romanian diplomat Liviu Radu and the success of Operation Black Thunder. Doval was actually inside the Harimandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab, in 1989 during Operation Black Thunder, when security forces were charging in to flush out terrorists from there. He is said to have planned out the Punjab state elections of 1992.
Doval spent six years in Pakistan. He went to Kashmir in 1990 and persuaded militants to become counter-insurgents targeting hardline anti-India terrorists. This set the way for state elections in Jammu and Kashmir in 1996. Later, he was posted in the Indian High Commission in London, UK as a Minister.

Doval was India's main negotiator with the hijackers of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in Kandahar in 1999. Uniquely, Doval has the experience of being involved in the termination of all 15 hijackings of Indian Airlines aircraft from 1971-1999. In the Headquarters, he headed IB’s operations wing for over a decade and was founder Chairman of the Multi Agency Centre (MAC) and Joint Task Force on Intelligence (JTFI).

2.
Anil Baijal (Executive Council, VIF)
Former Home Secretary

Born on 16th October, 1946, Mr. Baijal joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1969. He retired from the service in October, 2006 as Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. While in that Ministry, he anchored the designing and roll-out of the flagship programme of Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) with federal grant equivalent of about US dollars 12 billion, for improvement of infrastructure and provision of basic services in urban areas of India.

3.
C D Sahay, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Former Secretary (Research and Analysis Wing), Cabinet Secretariat
C D Sahay joined the Indian Police Service in 1967 and moved to Delhi in 1975 to join the Research and Analysis Wing, India’s external Intelligence setup. He rose to head the organisation from 2003 till superannuation in 2005. He has decades of experience in dealing with national security issues and international terrorism. Sahay spends a great deal of time in delivering lectures on these subjects at various training institutions in India.

4.
Dr. A Surya Prakash, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Author and Scholar of contemporary studies
A.Surya Prakash: an author and journalist and a leading commentator on Indian politics and constitutional and parliamentary issues. He has held key positions in several print and electronic media organisations.

5.
Lt Gen (Retd) Gautam Banerjee, Executive Council, VIF
Former Chief of Staff (Central Command)

6.
Lt General R K Sawhney, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
PVSM, AVSM
Lt General (Retd) Ravi Sawhney is a former Deputy Chief of Army Staff and in-charge for UN forces deployment. He also held the crucial post of Director General Military Intelligence (DGMI) and also headed the Unified Command set up in Assam to tackle insurgency for over two years. After retirement, General Sawhney has been keeping an eye on Afghanistan and Burma and has been writing and speaking extensively on the defence matters.

7.
Nripendra Mishra (Executive Council, VIF)
Former Chairman, Telephone Regulatory Authority of India
An outstanding Indian Administrative Officer, Nripendra Mishra has been a Secretary to the Government of India. He held senior positions in Communications Ministry and Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

8.
TCA Rangachari, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
A career Foreign Service officer, he served as Ambassador to Algeria, Germany, France, and in other capacities in China, Pakistan and at the UN in New York.

He has held various positions in the Ministries of External Affairs and Finance of the Government of India in New Delhi.After leaving the Government, he was, till May 2014, the Director of the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.

He holds an MA degree in History from Hindu College, Delhi University.

He speaks Tamil, Hindi, English, Chinese and French.

With such accomplished figures, I think it is safe to say that India is in good hands.

If nothing else, how often in the past have we had the chance to say that?

 

[Tshering22]

An impressive bunch indeed. So LutyensSpice has a problem with people of such caliber?

Lutyens Delhi has a problem with anyone who is thinking in favour of India, Indian people or anything to do with Indian culture.

They prefer a setup where India continues to be patronized by ever-developed west, where we are the 'Gandhian' state subservient to some expansionist countries, where we have the outward image of a peacenik while these 'liberals' rip Indian wealth off and use diversity as a means to continue the colonial policy of 'Divide and Conquer'.

 

[khujliwal]

I got nervous for a moment with Satish Chand. Thankfully, there was no RA.

ha ha ha, same here dude.