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  • Buddhadeb's Stand on the Maoists
    Souvik Chatterji    ·   09 Nov, 2009    ·    #2999    ·    Commentary    
    A few days ago, the West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya decided to release a woman who had been arrested for her involvement in Maoist activities, in return for the release of Atindranath Dutta, a police officer. The decision of t...
  • The Kerry-Lugar Bill
    Priyanka Subramaniam    ·   05 Nov, 2009    ·    #2998    ·    Commentary    
    The ‘Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009,’ more commonly called the Kerry-Lugar Bill, named after the two American Senators – John Kerry, a Democrat, and Dick Lugar, a Republican, who crafted the final version, was p...
  • Draft Agreement on Iran’s Nuclear Program: A Victory?
    Tara Sarin    ·   03 Nov, 2009    ·    #2997    ·    Commentary    
    On 21 October 2009 negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme wrapped up in Vienna. Terms such as “breakthrough” and “victory” were prematurely used to describe the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) ...
  • Argentina: India's Seventh Nuclear Destination
    Amit Kumar Chatterjee    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2996    ·    Commentary    
    This October, Argentina became the seventh country with which India signed a civil nuclear agreement. The crucial deal follows a series of similar ones that India signed with other countries. The lifting of a 34-year-old ban on India with regard...
  • A Warning Signal for Indian Space and Defence Establishment
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2995    ·    Commentary    
    The dramatic arrest in October this year of 52 year old Stewart David Nozette, a top ranking space scientist with the USA’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA), by the sleuths of the FBI(Federal Bureau of Investigation) on ...
  • China at 60 - Nationalism
    Gunjan Singh    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2994    ·    Commentary    
    The People’s Republic of China (PRC) completed 60 years on 1 October 2009. Mao Tse-tung had declared the establishment of the PRC on 1 October 1949 stating that the ‘Chinese people ha[d] stood up’. This was historic, especially...
  • New Dawn for New People’s Army?
    Anna Louise Strachan    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2993    ·    Commentary    
    In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), Jose Maria Sison who is currently living in the Netherlands, spoke of Maoist combatants in the Philippines increasing their armed capacity...
  • Cross-border Nationalism
    N Manoharan    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2992    ·    Commentary    
    A 10 member delegation of members of the Indian Parliament from Tamil Nadu recently visited Sri Lanka to assess the conditions of civilians displaced by the recently concluded war.  This was the first visit of its kind in terms of its polit...
  • The Illogic of ‘Unacceptable Damage’
    Ali Ahmed    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2991    ·    Commentary    
    India’s official nuclear doctrine of January 2003 has rightly been critiqued for including the term ‘massive’ in its formulation: ‘Nuclear retaliation to a first strike will be massive and designed to inflict unacceptable...
  • Kashmir’s Gateway to the World
    M Ashraf    ·   28 Oct, 2009    ·    #2990    ·    Commentary    
    It was after almost three decades that a direct international flight landed at the upgraded Srinagar Airport last February. The flight, received by the Congress President Sonia Gandhi, was a great occasion for Kashmir. For more than half a centu...
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