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  • The Indian Elections: Why Everyone Got It Wrong
    PR Chari    ·   27 May, 2004    ·    #1397    ·    Commentary    
    The tables are empty, the dance floor is deserted; and the astrologers, psephologists, print and electronic media persons are busy explaining why they got the last general elections results so wrong. Everyone was surprised, including the politic...
  • Ill Begun, Half Undone: Congress in Power
    PR Chari    ·   27 May, 2004    ·    #1396    ·    Commentary    
    The euphoria within the Congress party and its allies on achieving power after six years in the political wilderness is explicable. Whether they will reflect on the reasons why the BJP and its allies were defeated so comprehensively in the 14th ...
  • The Congress Government and the Future
    B Rajeshwari    ·   27 May, 2004    ·    #1395    ·    Commentary    
    The Fourteenth Parliamentary Elections resulted in the Congress and its allies securing 219 Lok Sabha seats and forming a coalition government under the banner of United Progressive Alliance, with the Congress as the leading partner. Based on th...
  • Tripura: Insurgency on the Back Foot
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   27 May, 2004    ·    #1394    ·    Commentary    
    The announcement of the six-month long ceasefire on 15 April 2004 with two prominent factions of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), following official level negotiations at Delhi, could be the harbinger of peace in the state. There...
  • The United States and South Asia: A New Dawn?
       ·   27 May, 2004    ·    #1393    ·    Commentary    
      Speaker:   Robert Hathaway Director, Asia Programme, Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, Washing...
  • Northeastern Concerns (Regional Media Survey, April 2004)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   27 May, 2004    ·    #1392    ·    Commentary    
    Terrorists and Politics in Manipur Commenting on the ban imposed on the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) on poll related activities in the state, The Sangai Express (8 April) in its editorial ‘Alarming Situation’ sa...
  • The New Silk Route
    Mukul Kumar    ·   17 May, 2004    ·    #1391    ·    Commentary    
    The modern silk route might see the light of the day forty-five years after it was first proposed. Also known as the Asian Highway, this route will once again link Asia with Europe when complete and become one of the most important examples of r...
  • Islamists Pose as Saviour as Rule of Law Vanishes in Bangladesh
    Anand Kumar    ·   17 May, 2004    ·    #1390    ·    Commentary    
    Islamists are pretending to be saviours in Bangladesh as the state has failed to provide law and order. The continuous deterioration of the situation has provided a suitable condition for the Islamist forces to enhance their hold on the society....
  • Turmoil in Nepal Continues (Nepal Media Survey, April 2004)
    P G Rajamohan    ·   17 May, 2004    ·    #1389    ·    Commentary    
    Relevance of Monarchy in Nepal   In Deshantar (11 April), a regional Nepali daily, Lok Raj Baral wrote about the relevance of an active Monarchy in the present context in Nepal and said, â€Å&ld...
  • ULFA’s Self-Denial: the Referendum Rhetoric
       ·   13 May, 2004    ·    #1388    ·    Commentary    
    The ULFA has entered a self-denial mode due not to ignorance, but a ‘fearful’ knowledge of the reality, which is driving it into a double denial: first, that it is no longer the organisation that once could set the terms of nationali...
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