COMMENTARIES
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Sushma Swaraj's Visit
India in Myanmar: Strengthening the Economic Commons
Aparupa Bhattacherjee · 26 Aug, 2014 · #4624 · Commentary
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s four-day visit to Myanmar highlights India’s intentions towards expanding the New Delhi-Naypyidaw bilateral. Swaraj, during her visit emphasised on the border cooperation and trade and...
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Indian Army & Operational Preparedness: Agenda for the New Chief
Gurmeet Kanwal · 26 Aug, 2014 · #4623 · Commentary
On taking over as the COAS from General Bikram Singh, General Dalbir Singh Suhag said his priorities would be to “enhance operational preparedness and the effectiveness of the Indian Army.” He also said that force modernisation, infr...
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Travails of Post Conflict Societies
Cost of Peace
D Suba Chandran · 26 Aug, 2014 · #4622 · Commentary
While there have been enormous emphasis in studying the cost of war and the evil effects of conflict, in the recent period, there have been an emphasis on the cost of peace in terms of economic and political investments and its fallouts.
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Nuke Street
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Musings on the Bomb
Sheel kant Sharma · 21 Aug, 2014 · #4621 · Commentary · Column
August is the month of remembrance of the ghastly tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Such remembrance is far from a mere annual routine of some ritual happenings – there is no dearth of moral, ethical, legal or humanitarian condemnation of...
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The 2014 Indonesian Presidential Election and the New Delhi-Jakarta Bilateral
Navrekha Sharma · 20 Aug, 2014 · #4620 · Commentary
Indonesia’s citizens, majority of who value human rights and religious pluralism, can breathe more easily after July 22 when the KPK (Indonesia’s Election Commission) announced victory for Joko Widodo and Yusuf Kalla as the country&r...
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Assessing US-India Relations: A Perspective from China
Bo Zhen · 20 Aug, 2014 · #4619 · Commentary
Three US political heavyweights - Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel - just visited India successively within a fortnight. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit th...
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Jammu & Kashmir: How votes devour rights
Shujaat Bukhari · 19 Aug, 2014 · #4618 · Commentary
After the parliamentary elections in which his party National Conference as well as Congress tasted a drubbing, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is yet to put a breaks on showing “magnanimity” in addressing people’s grievances. For...
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An (Im)Perfect Storm
Marches of Azadi and Revolution
D Suba Chandran · 14 Aug, 2014 · #4617 · Commentary
As expected, two marches – the “Azadi” march of Imran Khan and the “Revolution” march of Tahirul Qadri have merged to create a perfect storm for Pakistan on 14 August, its independence day. The situation in Islamaba...
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Denigrating Kashmiri Muslims
Shujaat Bukhari · 12 Aug, 2014 · #4616 · Commentary
For the past few months Rahul Pandita, a journalist with ‘The Hindu’ has unleashed his “creativity” to project the Kashmiri Muslims as a community that has nothing to be proud of their past. Using ‘The Hindu’,...
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Securing Our Interests
The New Silk Route
D Suba Chandran · 06 Aug, 2014 · #4615 · Commentary
Prof Mushtaq Kaw, a doyen of Central Asian studies in India and a well respected scholar, recently had published an essay on the above subject in one of the international journals. The essay critically examines the feasibility of the American pr...
