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  • Left Wing Extremism
    Maoists in the Western Ghats: Propaganda or Substance?
    Uddipan Mukherjee    ·   21 May, 2015    ·    #4877    ·    Commentary    
    On 4 May 2015, at a bakery in a village near Coimbatore, Roopesh and his wife Shyna were arrested in a joint operation by the police departments of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The two have allegedly led Maoists in Kerala fo...
  • India-South Korea
    Forget About Wooing Korea on Indian Standard Time
       ·   20 May, 2015    ·    #4876    ·    Commentary    
    Narendra Modi, who has visited 17 countries in the one year that he’s been Prime Minister, made his latest stop in South Korea at the end of a three-nation Asian tour that took him to China and Mongolia. In Korea, he talked about &lsquo...
  • Nepal Earthquake: How Rescue Efforts Played Out
    Hari Bansh Jha    ·   20 May, 2015    ·    #4875    ·    Commentary    
    What took centuries to build, the deadly 7.9 magnitude earthquake on April 25 destroyed in a few seconds. The multiplier effect of the earthquake is great. It will take us several decades to rebuild destroyed infrastructure. But thousands of liv...
  • Indian Ocean Region
    China-Sri Lanka: Maritime Infrastructure and India’s Security
    Roshni Thomas    ·   18 May, 2015    ·    #4874    ·    Commentary    
    When the new government of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena decided to review every Chinese investment approved by the previous President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government – including the Colombo Port Expansion Project (CPEP) &...
  • Modi and the Boundary Question: Will History Repeat Itself?
    Stephen Westcott    ·   13 May, 2015    ·    #4873    ·    Commentary    
    While negotiations during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming China visit, expected to occur on 14-16 May, will mostly focus on deepening economic ties and reducing the trade deficit, there is growing speculation that there will b...
  • The Strategist
    China: The January Storm
    Vijay Shankar    ·   12 May, 2015    ·    #4872    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Mao launched his ‘Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’ on 16 May 1966. It unleashed furious and complex internal armed struggles driven essentially by a struggle for power between Mao’s status quoists and Liu Shaoqi’s i...
  • Dateline Colombo
    Finding a Path to True Democracy in Sri Lanka
    Asanga Abeyagoonasekera    ·   10 May, 2015    ·    #4871    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to ov...
  • East Asia Compass
    Shinzo Abe: Changing his Stance?
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   08 May, 2015    ·    #4870    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    In the latter half of April 2015, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with both Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barak Obama. There were some speculations that he may change his course of being unapologetic on the Japanese coloni...
  • Looking East
    Naga Peace Process: Gone Off Track
    Wasbir Hussain    ·   07 May, 2015    ·    #4869    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    That New Delhi’s Naga peace policy has flopped has become evident with the Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) calling off the 14-year ceasefire on 27 March and immediately targeting security forces, kil...
  • Spotlight West Asia
    King Salman: The Boldest Ever Saudi Monarch?
    Ranjit Gupta    ·   05 May, 2015    ·    #4868    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    King Salman, at 79 years old, was widely believed to be in poorer health when he ascended the throne than any of his predecessors. He had been the Saudi minister of defence for six months and Crown Prince for two-and-a-half years – the sho...
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