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  • Longing for Peace (Northeast Regional Media Survey, 1- 30 April 2005)
       ·   06 May, 2005    ·    #1730    ·    Commentary    
    Peace in Bodoland The signing of a memorandum of understanding with the BLT and the unilateral ceasefire by the NDFB has brought relative peace to the land inhabited by the Bodos . Commenting on it, The Assam Tribune (20 April) editoria...
  • Nepal Crisis: Options before Political Parties
       ·   06 May, 2005    ·    #1729    ·    Commentary    
    Even as news reports of India getting ready to resume military supplies to Nepal came in, leaders of major political parties in Nepal were busy discussing ways to end King's draconian regime and restore multi-party democracy in the country. ...
  • Vacillating Andhra Naxal Policy
       ·   04 May, 2005    ·    #1728    ·    Commentary    
    Naxalites of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of a Superintendent of Police (SP), Mahesh Chandra Ladda, in the heart of the district headquarters of Ongole, Prakasam district, Andhra Prade...
  • Border Disputes in Northeast India: Failures of Imaginary
    Bidhan S Laishram    ·   04 May, 2005    ·    #1727    ·    Commentary    
    The people(s) of Northeast India have failed themselves: they are suffering from a twin inability to evolve a common imaginary and say 'we'. The consequences of this failure are the most significant cause of the turmoil in the region bot...
  • Peace Bus on a Bumpy Road
       ·   03 May, 2005    ·    #1726    ·    Commentary    
    Almost three weeks after the resumption of the bus service across the LoC connecting the divided families of Pakistan-held-Kashmir and Indian Kashmir, as the bonhomie and the euphoria attached with this bus seems to settle down slowly, the time ...
  • Unjust Wars - Blame it on Soldiers and Spies!
    Atul Bharadwaj    ·   30 Apr, 2005    ·    #1725    ·    Commentary    
    The recently released report by the US Presidential Commission indicts the intelligence agencies for being "dead wrong" about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The other interesting development is the timely release of...
  • India-China: A Strategic and Cooperative Partnership
    Rukmani Gupta    ·   30 Apr, 2005    ·    #1724    ·    Commentary    
    The Chinese premier's recent visit to India has been hailed as historic, elevating ties between the two states to the status of a strategic, cooperative partnership. Now that the self-congratulatory rhetoric following the visit has abated, t...
  • India and the Afro-Asian Summit
    R Ramasubramanian    ·   30 Apr, 2005    ·    #1723    ·    Commentary    
      'If you want to settle a thing, you see your opponent and talk it over with him. The last thing to do is write him a letter' said Lloyd George as a precursor to Summit level meetings. The word 'Summit' gained political...
  • Sino-Japanese Tensions: Asian Balance of Power in Flux
    Harsh V Pant    ·   30 Apr, 2005    ·    #1722    ·    Commentary    
    After weeks of escalating tensions, China and Japan have finally decided to bury their hatchet, at least for now. Chinese President, Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi met on the sidelines of the Afro-Asian summit held to c...
  • Can Musharraf be Trusted? - Trust, but Verify
    Kanchan Lakshman    ·   28 Apr, 2005    ·    #1721    ·    Commentary    
    Since the India-Pakistan rapprochement began in April 2003, there have been many positives on the conventional indicators of the Jammu and Kashmir conflict. Terrorist violence has witnessed a secular decline, cross-border infiltration is down, t...
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