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  • Uprising against Maoists (Nepal Media Survey, November 2004)
    P G Rajamohan    ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1587    ·    Commentary    
    Uprising against the Maoists As part of their campaign against the anti-People's War elements, Maoists killed three civilians including an eight-year-old boy in Salleri of Dailekh district on 20 November for daring to protest against th...
  • China-India Relations in a Regional Perspective
       ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1586    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Zhang Guihong, Deputy Director of Institute of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Chair: Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea The seminar opened with a remark from the chair that in China study on India was pickin...
  • Barking, Biting, Barking... : Prabhaharan's Hero's Day Speech - 2004
    N Manoharan    ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1585    ·    Commentary    
    In his 2004 Hero's Day speech, Prabhaharan touched upon various issues ranging from the present situation of the Tamils, peace talks with the previous UNF government, reasons for its stalemate, need for an interim set up in the Northeast, LT...
  • The Trial of Shankaracharya and Tamil Politics
    R Radhakrishnan    ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1584    ·    Commentary    
    The arrest of the Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam on the night of the 10 November, on charges of murder was truly dramatic, in a Dravidian style with the masses and the political elites being equally befuddled. Rightly so, one of the mo...
  • UN Reforms : Participative, Not Patronising
    Mohan K Tikku    ·   14 Dec, 2004    ·    #1583    ·    Commentary    
    It is no surprise that the two sets of proposals for restructuring the United Nations Security Council unveiled by Secretary General Kofi Annan, about a week ago, fall short of the expectations of many people in the Third World. The sixteen memb...
  • Manmohan's JK Visit Fails Expectations
       ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1582    ·    Commentary    
    A few days after the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, announced the Reconstruction and Development Plan for J&K, the State government was having a serious debate whether the plan was going to help the State at all or create more financ...
  • Prime Minister's Visit to the Northeast (Regional Media Survey, November 2004)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1581    ·    Commentary    
    Prime Minister's Northeast Tour The Prime Minister's visit to Assam and Manipur raised high expectations among the people of the region as far peace and development were concerned. The editorials in various dailies summed up the pop...
  • Project Seabird: An Example of India's Maritime Prowess
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1580    ·    Commentary    
    After a delay of over a decade, Indian Navy's most ambitious infrastructure enterprise 'Project Seabird' is now a reality. On 14 November 2004, the first Indian naval ship entered the harbour, heralding the emergence of a new strateg...
  • Contemporary Peace Operations: An Indo-British Dialogue
       ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1579    ·    Commentary    
    Chairperson: Amb Vijay Nambiar Speakers: Gp Capt Steele                 Col C A Pithawala             &n...
  • In Pursuit of Workable CBMs: Dateline Kashmir
    Mohammed Badrul Alam    ·   04 Dec, 2004    ·    #1578    ·    Commentary    
    Of late, a number of trial balloons have been floated on resolving the long simmering Kashmir tangle. It ranges from the Andorra model to replicating negotiations based on the Northern Ireland peace talks. However, it has to be remembered that f...
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