COMMENTARIES
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Sidelining the Baglihar: Overlooking a Critical CBM?
Seema Sridhar · 10 May, 2005 · #1736 · Commentary
President Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during their high profile 'cricket diplomacy' could not reach an understanding on Baglihar issue. India prefers a bilateral process to resolve the problem; but this progress has been ...
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Nepal- Future Steps
· 10 May, 2005 · #1735 · Commentary
Speaker:
Dr Rhoderick Chalmers, International Crisis
Group Chair: Maj
Gen Dipankar Banerjee
Dipankar Banerjee:
The seminar on Nepal is a continuation of IPCS's study of the
developments in Nepal. The key is to focus on the larger iss...
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Can Musharraf be Trusted? - Yes, the Atmosphere is Conducive
AM Vohra · 10 May, 2005 · #1734 · Commentary
Peace is the key to socio-economic development. Poverty, illiteracy, health care and the unemployment are problems for both India and Pakistan, and require immediate corrective measures. However, there is no dearth of people obsessed with suspic...
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Bangladesh Factor Affecting Insurgency in North-East
Anil Kamboj · 06 May, 2005 · #1733 · Commentary
The northeastern region of India covering a total area of about 2,55,000 sq km is surrounded by Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and Myanmar. Less than one percent of the external boundaries of the region are contiguous with rest of India while remaini...
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Dealing with Naxal Menace: Assessing Centre's Initiative
Prafulla Ketkar · 06 May, 2005 · #1732 · Commentary
The failure of Andhra Pradesh Government's dialogue with the naxal organizations and the spread of naxal menace necessitated the Center to take cognizance of the problem. Accordingly, the Home Ministry organized the Chief Ministers' Conf...
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India and the NPT - A Nuclear Existential Dilemma
· 06 May, 2005 · #1731 · Commentary
For most of the world, the timeline of India's nuclear development stops rather abruptly in May 1998. At that time, a nuclear India could not exist according to the rules governing the world's nuclear-capable countries; after its nuclear...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
