COMMENTARIES
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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...
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J&K
Late but welcome realization
Shujaat Bukhari · 05 Aug, 2014 · #4614 · Commentary
What Israel has been doing in Gaza for past about a month has put humanity to shame. It has also exposed the double standards of world powers and brought to the fore the fact how insensitive and incapacitated the Muslim nations are. Whatever the...
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China’s Meddling in the Brahmaputra: India’s Options
Abanti Bhattacharya · 19 Aug, 2014 · #4613 · Commentary
The Brahmaputra River is likely to emerge as a new contentious front embroiling India and China. This dispute will be more deleterious given its entanglement with the India-China border issue. Earlier this year, Vice President Hamid Ansari&rsquo...
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Indian Ocean: Multilateralism Takes Root
Vijay Sakhuja · 19 Aug, 2014 · #4612 · Commentary
India will host the Indian Ocean Dialogue (IOD) at Kochi, Kerala in September to discuss issues of maritime safety and security in the Indian Ocean. The initiative emerges from the 13th meeting of the Council of Ministers in Perth, Australia hel...
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Dateline Kabul
Can Afghanistan Become a "Perfect Place?"
Mariam Safi · 18 Aug, 2014 · #4611 · Commentary
With the anticipated withdrawal of NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) troops from Afghanistan by the end 2014, the country will leave behind its decade of transition (2001-2014) and enter the decade of transformation (2015-...
