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  • Profiling a Poacher: The Rise and Fall of Veerappan
    N Manoharan    ·   29 Oct, 2004    ·    #1547    ·    Commentary    
    The Rise… While Phoolan Devi was 'Bandit Queen', Veerappan was 'Bandit King' in India. A master of jungle-craft, Koose Munusamy Veerappan (Veerappan in Tamil means 'brave...
  • Xinjiang's Governor's Visit to India: Significance for India-China Relations
    Abanti Bhattacharya    ·   29 Oct, 2004    ·    #1546    ·    Commentary    
    In October this year a six-member delegation led by Xinjiang's governor, Ismail Tiliwaldi, visited India. This is a significant visit for Sino-Indian relations and most analysts have hailed it as deepening relations between the two countries...
  • Pakistan-India Peace Process: Cautious Optimism
    Salma Malik    ·   28 Oct, 2004    ·    #1545    ·    Commentary    
    Cautious optimism seems to be the underlining principle in the breakthrough in Pakistan-India relations. Recent initiatives are a welcome change from the atmosphere of hostility and near war like situation that loomed over the region for the pas...
  • Nagaland: One more Chance for Peace
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   27 Oct, 2004    ·    #1544    ·    Commentary    
    The reported decision of the top leadership of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) to visit New Delhi for the second time, on the invitation of the Prime Minister is good news both for the Nagas as well as the ...
  • Missile Defense Moves Forward
    Harsh V Pant    ·   27 Oct, 2004    ·    #1543    ·    Commentary    
    President Bush came to office promising that he would build a nationwide missile defense system to protect the US. He has slowly, but steadily, moved towards that objective. The US formally withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) tre...
  • The 'K' Factor in Sri Lankan Politics: Karuna's Traverse from Bullet to Ballot
    N Manoharan    ·   25 Oct, 2004    ·    #1542    ·    Commentary    
    To the list of already existing Sri Lankan Tamil political parties there is now a new addition in the form of Karuna's Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP) - Tamileela People's Liberation Tigers. But the moot question is what is th...
  • What Would be Acceptable in Jammu and Kashmir?: An Indian Perspective
    D Suba Chandran    ·   23 Oct, 2004    ·    #1541    ·    Commentary    
    A section in India adheres by the 1994 Parliament resolution, demanding that J&K, including PoK and Northern Areas, be integrated. This section is led by the rightist forces viz. the Sangh Parivar, but is in a minority. Even within the Sangh...
  • East Asia Diary: Of a Grasshopper Challenging a Cock and Other Matters
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   23 Oct, 2004    ·    #1540    ·    Commentary    
    September 2004 saw Jiang Zemin taking what is apparently his last bow on the stage of Chinese politics. September will, however, also be remembered for Taiwanese Premier Yu Shyi-kun's "balance of terror" talk threatening attack on ...
  • Overshadowing Osama: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as Terror Master Mind
       ·   23 Oct, 2004    ·    #1539    ·    Commentary    
    "If they don't turn in al-Zarqawi and his group, we will carry out operations in Fallujah. We will not be lenient," Iyad Allawi, Prime Minster of Iraq said on 13 October 2004, issuing an ultimatum to the people in Sunni majority Fa...
  • AP-Naxalite Dialogue: The New Roadblock
    Richard Mahapatra    ·   23 Oct, 2004    ·    #1538    ·    Commentary    
    The first round of dialogue between the CPI (Maoist) and? Andhra Pradesh is failing over the issue of disarming the cadres of the former. Another roadblock is imminent: the Forest Conservation Act (FCA), 1980, which is turning out to be a hurdle...
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