COMMENTARIES
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Spotlight West Asia
US-GCC Summit: More Hype than Substance
Ranjit Gupta · 01 Jun, 2015 · #4881 · Commentary · Column
On 17 April, the White House announced US President Barack Obama’s invite to GCC monarchs for a summit on from 13-14 May to reassure the Saudi Arabia-led GCC bloc about the nuclear framework agreement with Iran and against the backdrop of ...
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Voice from America
The Battle against FIFA: Combating Corruption or Combating Power Transition?
Amit Gupta · 29 May, 2015 · #4880 · Commentary
The current allegations of bribery and corruption against some executive members of the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) are important because both national and international sporting bodies have to be effectively policed...
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Looking East
China: Implications of Modi’s Visit on Northeast India
Wasbir Hussain · 26 May, 2015 · #4879 · Commentary · Column
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s high-on-optics China visit may have generated enough signals about the two Asian giants attempting to move beyond the status quo on key fronts, but in Northeast India, the mood after the trip, if anything, ha...
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Red Affairs
Countering Left Wing Extremism: Failures within Successes
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 21 May, 2015 · #4878 · Commentary · Column
It is a curious cocktail of bravery, success, and also operational paralysis. Like most incidents reported from the theatres affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE), the 16 May 2015 incident in Chhattisgarh also has a twist in the tale. In the end...
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Left Wing Extremism
Maoists in the Western Ghats: Propaganda or Substance?
Uddipan Mukherjee · 21 May, 2015 · #4877 · Commentary
On 4 May 2015, at a bakery in a village near Coimbatore, Roopesh and his wife Shyna were arrested in a joint operation by the police departments of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The two have allegedly led Maoists in Kerala fo...
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India-South Korea
Forget About Wooing Korea on Indian Standard Time
· 20 May, 2015 · #4876 · Commentary
Narendra Modi, who has visited 17 countries in the one year that he’s been Prime Minister, made his latest stop in South Korea at the end of a three-nation Asian tour that took him to China and Mongolia.
In Korea, he talked about &lsquo...
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Nepal Earthquake: How Rescue Efforts Played Out
Hari Bansh Jha · 20 May, 2015 · #4875 · Commentary
What took centuries to build, the deadly 7.9 magnitude earthquake on April 25 destroyed in a few seconds. The multiplier effect of the earthquake is great. It will take us several decades to rebuild destroyed infrastructure. But thousands of liv...
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Indian Ocean Region
China-Sri Lanka: Maritime Infrastructure and India’s Security
Roshni Thomas · 18 May, 2015 · #4874 · Commentary
When the new government of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena decided to review every Chinese investment approved by the previous President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government – including the Colombo Port Expansion Project (CPEP) &...
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Modi and the Boundary Question: Will History Repeat Itself?
Stephen Westcott · 13 May, 2015 · #4873 · Commentary
While negotiations during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming China visit, expected to occur on 14-16 May, will mostly focus on deepening economic ties and reducing the trade deficit, there is growing speculation that there will b...
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The Strategist
China: The January Storm
Vijay Shankar · 12 May, 2015 · #4872 · Commentary · Column
Mao launched his ‘Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’ on 16 May 1966. It unleashed furious and complex internal armed struggles driven essentially by a struggle for power between Mao’s status quoists and Liu Shaoqi’s i...
