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  • A stark reality
    Youth and Jihad in Kashmir
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   24 Jun, 2014    ·    #4528    ·    Commentary    
    Last year when I wrote about the boys who had graduated in different streams and joined the “Jehad” in Kashmir and the increasing number of people joining their funeral prayers, many “analysts” responded by saying that it...
  • A Four-Fold Approach
    Dhaka as the Gateway to India’s Look East Policy
    D Suba Chandran    ·   27 Jun, 2014    ·    #4527    ·    Commentary    
    The visit of the new External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj to Dhaka is timely and of importance. If pursued with the right spirit sustained momentum, Bangladesh has the potential of becoming a huge success story for the new government...
  • View from China
    Modi and Sino-Indian Relations
    Siwei Liu    ·   25 Jun, 2014    ·    #4526    ·    Commentary    
    Recently, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had a very useful and timely India trip, during which he not only held talks with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj but also met with the newly- elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pra...
  • IPCS Book Review
    Nepal: Globalisation and Identity Politics
    Sohan Prasad Sha    ·   23 Jun, 2014    ·    #4525    ·    Commentary    
    Facing Globalization in the Himalayas: Belonging and the Politics of the Self G Toffin & J Pfaff-Czarnecka (Eds). Governance, Conflict and Civic Action-Vol 5, 484 pages Publisher: SAGE, 2014 There are contesting ideas among academicia...
  • Bangladesh-Myanmar Border Skirmishes: Who, What and Why
    Dibya Shikha    ·   20 Jun, 2014    ·    #4524    ·    Commentary    
    In the recently concluded Director General-level conference between Bangladesh and Myanmar in Naypyidaw, although both countries resolved to maintain peace and tranquility on the border – after exchanging gunfire along the border – m...
  • J&K
    Kashmir missing in Modi’s first-year priorities
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   19 Jun, 2014    ·    #4523    ·    Commentary    
    When Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met his Indian counter part Narendra Modi on May 27 in New Delhi, there was no mention of “Kashmir” in the briefing by both sides. Pakistan Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz did tell the media lat...
  • Myanmar’s National Census: Fuelling Ethnic Crises
    Aparupa Bhattacherjee    ·   18 Jun, 2014    ·    #4522    ·    Commentary    
    The nationwide census that was carried out from March to May 2014 in Myanmar was an essential step in the country’s preparation for the 2015 general elections. The previous census was held 31 years ago in 1983, under the military junta gov...
  • Modi’s Thimpu Visit: Deepening India-Bhutan Relations
    Roomana Hukil    ·   17 Jun, 2014    ·    #4521    ·    Commentary    
    In his maiden foreign visit as premier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recently went to Bhutan to strengthen development cooperation and further enhance economic ties. Although there are no big agreements on the anvil, the prime minister's sh...
  • India’s Northeast: An Agenda for DoNER
    Ruhee Neog    ·   17 Jun, 2014    ·    #4520    ·    Commentary    
    In interviews conducted post his appointment as the head for the Ministry for the Development of the Northeastern Region (DoNER), General (Retd) VK Singh identified certain areas for the “overall development” of the Northeast. This a...
  • INS Arihant: A 'Giant Stride' for India?
    Amit Saksena    ·   16 Jun, 2014    ·    #4519    ·    Commentary    
    When the INS Arihant’s nuclear reactor went critical in August 2013, India not only joined the blue-water navy club of countries with the capability to build nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, but also picked on a major doctrinal ...
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