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  • Barking, Biting, Barking... : Prabhaharan's Hero's Day Speech - 2004
    N Manoharan    ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1585    ·    Commentary    
    In his 2004 Hero's Day speech, Prabhaharan touched upon various issues ranging from the present situation of the Tamils, peace talks with the previous UNF government, reasons for its stalemate, need for an interim set up in the Northeast, LT...
  • The Trial of Shankaracharya and Tamil Politics
    R Radhakrishnan    ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1584    ·    Commentary    
    The arrest of the Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam on the night of the 10 November, on charges of murder was truly dramatic, in a Dravidian style with the masses and the political elites being equally befuddled. Rightly so, one of the mo...
  • UN Reforms : Participative, Not Patronising
    Mohan K Tikku    ·   14 Dec, 2004    ·    #1583    ·    Commentary    
    It is no surprise that the two sets of proposals for restructuring the United Nations Security Council unveiled by Secretary General Kofi Annan, about a week ago, fall short of the expectations of many people in the Third World. The sixteen memb...
  • Manmohan's JK Visit Fails Expectations
       ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1582    ·    Commentary    
    A few days after the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, announced the Reconstruction and Development Plan for J&K, the State government was having a serious debate whether the plan was going to help the State at all or create more financ...
  • Prime Minister's Visit to the Northeast (Regional Media Survey, November 2004)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1581    ·    Commentary    
    Prime Minister's Northeast Tour The Prime Minister's visit to Assam and Manipur raised high expectations among the people of the region as far peace and development were concerned. The editorials in various dailies summed up the pop...
  • Project Seabird: An Example of India's Maritime Prowess
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1580    ·    Commentary    
    After a delay of over a decade, Indian Navy's most ambitious infrastructure enterprise 'Project Seabird' is now a reality. On 14 November 2004, the first Indian naval ship entered the harbour, heralding the emergence of a new strateg...
  • Contemporary Peace Operations: An Indo-British Dialogue
       ·   13 Dec, 2004    ·    #1579    ·    Commentary    
    Chairperson: Amb Vijay Nambiar Speakers: Gp Capt Steele                 Col C A Pithawala             &n...
  • In Pursuit of Workable CBMs: Dateline Kashmir
    Mohammed Badrul Alam    ·   04 Dec, 2004    ·    #1578    ·    Commentary    
    Of late, a number of trial balloons have been floated on resolving the long simmering Kashmir tangle. It ranges from the Andorra model to replicating negotiations based on the Northern Ireland peace talks. However, it has to be remembered that f...
  • Naga Nationalism: The Inward Turn of a Conflict
    Bidhan S Laishram    ·   04 Dec, 2004    ·    #1577    ·    Commentary    
    One major success of the ongoing negotiations between the NSCN-IM and the Government of India (GOI) has been the peaceful overcoming of minor hurdles that might have become major obstacles to peace. The latest that has cropped up, however, raise...
  • Will it or won't it happen?
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1576    ·    Commentary    
    Award-winning writer Indira Goswami's meetings with the Prime Minister on 19 November signified that the writer has been successful in attracting the attention of the government to the serious problem of insurgency in Assam. This was hailed ...
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