Nov 2007. The magazine Business & Economy, in cover story, profiles Robinder Sachdev as one of twelve most influential Indian Americans in the US
May 2009. During parliamentary elections in India, the Economic Times features Imagindia as leading election campaign management expert in India
Nov 2009. The Wall Street Journal, on first day of PM's state visit to US, quotes Imagindia as India's leading think tank dedicated to promoting the image of India
Dec 2009. Robinder Sachdev inducted on Board of Trustees of Children's Book Trust - India's oldest national children's organization
Feb 2010. Imagindia's suggestions on India-China relations considered to be "most constructive and practical" among a peer discussion of over 70 leading strategic thinkers in India and the US
PAKISTANI FLOODS: STRATEGIC INVISIBLES
http://ramanstrategicanalysis.blogspot.com/
B.RAMAN / August 17, 2010
"It wiped out villages. Destroyed crops. Over 3.6 million people were directly affected. Nearly 85% of the area was destroyed. Three months after the
catastrophe some 75% of the population was receiving food from relief workers "It happened in Pakistan. Yet few Pakistanis even know of it by name. Fewer still remember that it eventually contributed to Pakistan's break-up.
"The 1970 Bhola cyclone hit then East Pakistan on November 12, 1970. It brought with it winds of an unbelievable 185 km/hr. It left in its wake a half million Pakistanis dead.
"Meteorologists remember it as being one of the most deadly natural disasters in human history - sources suggest that it left between 300,000 to 1 million Pakistanis dead in its wake; most estimates suggest around 500,000 Pakistanis died.
"Historians tend to agree that although there were many other forces at work, the devastation caused by the cyclone and the widespread view that the government had mis-managed the relief efforts and West Pakistan had generally shown an attitude of neglect, contributed to high levels of anti-West Pakistan feeling, a sweeping victory for the Awami League, and eventually the breakup of Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh.
"Such, then, are the forces of nature. And such are the forces of history."
