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  • Ethnic Violence and Communal Polarisation in Orissa's Kandhamal District
    Maitreya Buddha Samantaray    ·   08 Jan, 2008    ·    #2462    ·    Commentary    
    The ongoing communal tension in the sensitive Kandhamal district of eastern Orissa is yet to die down, and night curfew still continues in the affected areas of Phulbani, Baliguda, Brahmanigaon and Daringbadi. Police officials have arrested 93 p...
  • Securing Indian Jails against Naxal Threats
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   08 Jan, 2008    ·    #2461    ·    Commentary    
    As the country grapples with growing law and order problems in one form or the other, the Naxals have been systematically escalating their fight against the so-called bourgeois Indian state. They have found new ways to organise themselves and ma...
  • 2008 Pakistan Elections I: A Backgrounder
    Dr. Suba Chandran & Gautam Chawla    ·   04 Jan, 2008    ·    #2460    ·    Commentary    
    Following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto Elections for the National Assembly and four provincial assemblies in Pakistan have been rescheduled from 8 January to 18 February. The National Assembly consists of 342 seats, from Islamabad (Federa...
  • School Dropouts Deepen Naxal Problem in Bihar
    Kamla Singh    ·   03 Jan, 2008    ·    #2459    ·    Commentary    
    The Prime Minister has declared that Naxalism has become the biggest national threat. There are many states under the influence of the red brigade, including India's eastern state of Bihar. One of the country's poorest states, Bihar is f...
  • The 2008 US Presidential Primaries: Competitive and Unpredictable
    Sayan Banerjee    ·   03 Jan, 2008    ·    #2458    ·    Commentary    
    The 2008 US presidential election season commences with the caucuses in Iowa on 3 January 2008. History reveals that in earlier presidential nomination processes, both parties had a front-runner, the establishment's choice with a commanding ...
  • Benazir's Assassination: Implications for Pakistan's Democracy
    Ashok Sharma    ·   03 Jan, 2008    ·    #2457    ·    Commentary    
    The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, a former two-time prime minister of Pakistan, in Rawalpindi on 27 December 2007, just 10 weeks after she returned to her homeland from eight years in exile, has put a question mark on ongoing efforts to bring...
  • Sri Lanka: The Way Ahead
       ·   31 Dec, 2007    ·    #2456    ·    Commentary    
    Report of Discussion with delegation of Tamil leaders from Sri Lanka held at the IPCS on 22 December 2007 Delegation Members: Mr V Anandasangareee, President, Tamil United Liberation Front Mr D Siddharthan, Chief, People's Liber...
  • China and India Rising
       ·   30 Dec, 2007    ·    #2455    ·    Commentary    
    Report of IPCS Seminar held on 20 December 2007 Speaker: Dr. Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster, UK Historically, non-western nations viewed Asia through the lens of orientalism. With the rise of China and India, the question now ari...
  • Pakistan after Benazir
    D Suba Chandran    ·   28 Dec, 2007    ·    #2454    ·    Commentary    
    Benazir Bhutto, one of the most popular leaders in contemporary Pakistan and widely believed to have the best chances of winning the scheduled elections in January 2008 was assassinated on 27 December 2007. What are the implications of this assa...
  • Who Killed Benazir?
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   28 Dec, 2007    ·    #2453    ·    Commentary    
    On 27 December 2007, Benazir Bhutto, the charismatic former Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated in an attack which involved a gunshot to the neck and the gunman also blowing himself up in a suicide bombing. This attack on Bhutto w...
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