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  • Assam’s Illegal Immigrants: Electoral Clarities and National Ambiguities
    Bidhan S Laishram    ·   01 Aug, 2004    ·    #1447    ·    Commentary    
    The issue of illegal immigrants in Assam represents lack of national clarity over a desirable policy on the issue of immigrants. Numerical guarantee in elections has solely authored this ambiguity over the decades by undermining, in the ...
  • Limited War
    Lt. Gen. AM Vohra    ·   01 Aug, 2004    ·    #1446    ·    Commentary    
    Considerable confusion has been caused in the last few years by the loose usage of the term ‘Limited War’. After the Kaluchak terrorist attack on 14 May 2002, a columnist wrote in the Hindustan Times of 31 May 2002 that Ind...
  • Peace through Dialogue (Kashmir Urdu Media Survey, June 2004)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   01 Aug, 2004    ·    #1445    ·    Commentary    
    The editorial, ?Continuation of the dialogue? in daily Aftab (03 June 2004) commented on the telephonic conversation between Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan. Indian Foreign Minister, Natwar Singh, reiterated that India would contin...
  • Policy to Counter Hostage-taking
    Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee    ·   27 Jul, 2004    ·    #1444    ·    Commentary    
    The recent incident of three Indians taken hostage in Iraq has highlighted once again the dangerous world we live in. Hostages have been taken throughout history. What makes it so urgent today is its increasing link with international t...
  • A Requiem for Reservations
    R Radhakrishnan    ·   27 Jul, 2004    ·    #1443    ·    Commentary    
    The move by the Andhra Pradesh government to extend five percent reservations in educational institutions and government jobs to the Muslim community raises fears of social corrective measures being exploited for creating political constit...
  • SAARC Should Stay Clear Of Bilateral Issues
    Mukul Kumar    ·   27 Jul, 2004    ·    #1442    ·    Commentary    
    The bonhomie created by the 12th SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) summit has been further boosted by the recent decision to hold the 13th SAARC summit in Bangladesh in January next year. Though SAARC does not have ...
  • Failed Attempt: Suicide Attack or Peace Process?
    R Ramasubramanian    ·   27 Jul, 2004    ·    #1441    ·    Commentary    
    Failed suicide attacks by the Tamil Tigers have been few, in terms of not being able to liquidate the intended target. Even on such an occasion, one or several others were killed in the attack. The human weapons of the LTTE achieved huge s...
  • Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) ?: An Overview
    N Manoharan    ·   27 Jul, 2004    ·    #1440    ·    Commentary    
    It is generally assumed that refugees and IDPs (internally displaced persons) are one and the same and that the only distinctions between them are bureaucratic and legal. But, though both categories are displaced from their traditional hom...
  • Communalizing a Killing
    R Radhakrishnan    ·   23 Jul, 2004    ·    #1439    ·    Commentary    
    The news report in the Lahore-based Ghazwa Times about Ishrat Jahan Raza, killed in a police encounter last month in Ahmedabad, being a member of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba seems to be the culmination of a soap opera. This incident...
  • The 91st Constitutional Amendment and the NE States
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   17 Jul, 2004    ·    #1438    ·    Commentary    
    The 91st constitutional amendment, passed in 2003, that requires restricting the size of the ministry to 15 per cent of the total size of the State legislative assemblies, has created a political upheaval in some of the north-eastern Sta...
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