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  • Growing Naxal Threat in West Bengal
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   10 Nov, 2007    ·    #2413    ·    Commentary    
    If recent patterns of Naxal violence and activism in West Bengal are any indication, the Maoists' new strategy seems to be moving into new territories and taking up emotive issues like forcible displacement due to industrial and infrastructu...
  • Is Musharraf Running out of Time?
    Chiranjib Haldar    ·   10 Nov, 2007    ·    #2412    ·    Commentary    
    The French novelist Victor Hugo once said that history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, then as a farce. The Pakistani governments from Ayub to Musharraf can be seen in this light, though it is hard to tell which phase constitutes tragedy and...
  • Leadership Change in China and Implications for India
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   07 Nov, 2007    ·    #2411    ·    Commentary    
    The 17th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China that took place in October was notable for the beginning of the transition to the so-called fifth generation of China's leaders. It is important to analyze these leadership changes both...
  • Violent Bihar
    Souvik Chatterji    ·   06 Nov, 2007    ·    #2410    ·    Commentary    
    The security concerns of Bihar differ from other states in India. On the one hand, it does not have border-related security issues while, on the other, there is no separatist movement for creating a new state - Jharkhand has already separa...
  • Northeast India: Through the Prism of the National Media
    Amit Sengupta    ·   02 Nov, 2007    ·    #2409    ·    Commentary    
    Northeast India is a rich abode of natural beauty and bounty encompassing the seven sister states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and the adjacent hilly state of Sikkim. But it is a strange fact ...
  • Media Coverage of the Ajmer and Ludhiana Blasts
    Vaishali V Raman    ·   02 Nov, 2007    ·    #2408    ·    Commentary    
    On a routine Thursday in Ajmer as people gathered as usual at the Sufi shrine of Khwaja Mohiuddin Chisti in Ajmer, a series of bomb blasts shattered the serenity of the town. With one stroke, three persons were killed and 17 others injured...
  • Dynamics of Politics in Pakistan - Current Developments
       ·   31 Oct, 2007    ·    #2407    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the Seminar held in the IPCS Conference Room on 26 October 2007 Speakers: Prof Hasan-Askari Rizvi, Political and Defense Consultant, Lahore Prof Rashid Khan, Chairman, National Centre for Recruitment, Lahore Prof Hasan-Askari...
  • Whither China's Democratic Transition?
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   31 Oct, 2007    ·    #2406    ·    Commentary    
    Just before the Seventeenth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), democrats all over the world expected some developments in the conclave to further the prospects of democracy in China. But the Party Congress has only brought t...
  • Haldighati II: Implications for Internal Security
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   30 Oct, 2007    ·    #2405    ·    Commentary    
    A ring leader of the Naroda Patiya massacre during the Gujarat carnage of 2002 has been captured on hidden camera boasting that on completion of the killings he felt like Rana Pratap at Haldighati. This tells of something more than a disconcerti...
  • India and Singapore move towards mutual capacity-building
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   29 Oct, 2007    ·    #2404    ·    Commentary    
    The defence secretaries of India and Singapore signed an agreement on 9 October 2007 during the fourth India-Singapore Defence Policy Dialogue which increases India's involvement in Southeast Asia. It provides for regular training and exerci...
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