COMMENTARIES
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Northeastern Insurgents in Bhutan: Time for a Pro-active Action
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 28 Aug, 2001 · #556 · Commentary
It is a classic case of protracted insurgency overflowing into the
territory
of
India
's neighbour. The July 31, 2001 attack on a truck carrying Bhutanese forest officials by unidentified terrorists, apart from evoking sympa...
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A Border Guards Organization for Anti-Terrorist Operations
Brig. SS Chandel · 28 Aug, 2001 · #555 · Commentary
Indian intelligence has chosen to remain myopic, both in terms of space (neighours, relevant nations and superpowers) and time (present and future); all our wars in 1947, 1962, 1965 1971 and 1999 bear testimony of this statement. We did not have f...
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Does the US non-proliferation policy make any difference in South Asia?
· 28 Aug, 2001 · #554 · Commentary
Speaker: Raju G. C. Thomas
Allia Chalmers Professor of International Affairs,
Marquette
University
The two general purposes of the
US
non-proliferation policy are: ...
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Kashmir: The Way Ahead – Part II
· 24 Aug, 2001 · #553 · Commentary
Interview with G Parthasarthy, Former High Commissioner of
India
at
Pakistan
At the summit in
Agra
and before,
Pakistan
has been insisting that
Kashmir
...
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Talking with the NSCN-IM : From Paris to Bangkok to Amsterdam – Part 2
Shivaji Mukherjee · 21 Aug, 2001 · #552 · Commentary
The four-year ceasefire between the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the Union government has failed because it has not yielded any negotiated political settlement. While it has satisfied the short-term goal of brin...
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Talking with the NSCN-IM: From Paris to Bangkok to Amsterdam – Part 1
Shivaji Mukherjee · 21 Aug, 2001 · #551 · Commentary
In tackling the threat from the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), the Union government seems trapped in a contradictory strategy of its own making.
One horn of this strategy is the gov...
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Balance of Payment and India’s Sovereignty
· 21 Aug, 2001 · #550 · Commentary
Since the beginning of the Second Five Year Plan,
India
has experienced a balance of payments (BOP) problem.
India
entered the nineties with large internal and external financial imbalances. This made the economy vulnerable to exog...
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Russian Arms in Indian Forces
Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.) · 18 Aug, 2001 · #549 · Commentary
During the preceding year,
India has finalised several long-pending defence contracts with
Russia worth nearly $3 billion for 150 SU-30MKI multi-role fighters, a more powerful version of the 40 MI-17 IV helicopters and 310 T-90S main b...
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Scope for promotion of Sino-Indian relations
Abanti Bhattacharya · 18 Aug, 2001 · #548 · Commentary
After the 1962 India-China War our discussions on Sino-Indian relations seem to revolve around the question on how
China perceives us and vice-versa. Staying in
Shanghai for a year made me feel Indians just don't matter to the Chin...
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The Place of Atomic Power in Energy Security
· 18 Aug, 2001 · #547 · Commentary
The following is a report on the Friday Group Discussions held on 27 July, 2001 in the IPCS. The main speaker was Mr. Stanislav E. Barkovskiy who is the representative in
India
of the Ministry of the
Russian Federation
for Atomic E...