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  • Homeland Dreams, Terror tactics
    Rani Pathak    ·   08 Oct, 2004    ·    #1520    ·    Commentary    
    In a span of less than 72 hours last weekend (2-4October),  insurgents have transformed India's northeastern frontier into a bleeding warfront. Not surprisingly, the rebels have decided to kick-off their fresh orgy of violence on yet an...
  • Japan and the Nuclear Issue
       ·   08 Oct, 2004    ·    #1519    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: HE Mr. Yasukuni Enoki, Japan's Ambassador Chair: Butshikan Singh, Acting Director General, ICWA The Chair initiated the lecture by saying that India and Japan have shown warmth and understanding in their relations since the 195...
  • Beyond the Korean Kimchi: India-South Korean Relations
    Mohammed Badrul Alam    ·   08 Oct, 2004    ·    #1518    ·    Commentary    
    India-South Korea diplomatic relations, ever since its establishment three decades ago, has been on the upswing except for minor snags. The Joint Commission of both countries has had regular institutionalized discussions on political, economic, ...
  • Preventing Proliferation - Bottling the Nuclear Genie
       ·   08 Oct, 2004    ·    #1517    ·    Commentary    
    Three years after the attack on the World Trade Centre, the War Against Terror is in crisis. The initial and overwhelming support to the US in its hour of tragedy has passed. Today, perhaps a necessary War has become a very complex and a divisiv...
  • Buying Security In Iraq: The Japanese Way
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   05 Oct, 2004    ·    #1516    ·    Commentary    
    Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has assured Mr Iyad Allawi, the interim Iraqi Prime Minister that the Japanese Self Defense Forces (SDF) would continue with their assigned mission of reconstruction of the war-torn country. Their current deploym...
  • Democracy and Misgovernance
    R Radhakrishnan    ·   30 Sep, 2004    ·    #1515    ·    Commentary    
    It was rightly said by the poet that the "old order changeth yielding place to new...lest one good custom corrupt the whole"; but one needs to rid oneself of such notions when it comes to Indian politics. India continues to remain a fu...
  • India-Pakistan Relations: Are They Ripe For Normalisation?
    PR Chari    ·   30 Sep, 2004    ·    #1514    ·    Commentary    
    The extraordinary civility shown by President Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh towards each other in their speeches to the United Nations General Assembly and their joint press conference in New York this September, in sharp contrast ...
  • Leadership Change in China: Nature and Implications
    Tshering Chonzom    ·   29 Sep, 2004    ·    #1513    ·    Commentary    
    Any new leadership that comes to power prefers to leave behind a legacy of its own while introducing changes. Does Hu harbour such desires? He had acquired the two top leadership posts, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and...
  • 'Doctors' take Drug Trafficking to New Areas in Eastern India
    Mukul Kumar    ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1512    ·    Commentary    
    Drug trafficking has been a major problem in India's northeast, but this menace now threatens to engulf new areas. What is worse, not only are drugs from the Golden triangle coming into India, some of these routes are now being used to smugg...
  • Proliferation Security Initiative and India
    Reshmi Kazi    ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1511    ·    Commentary    
    The US Secretary of State, General Collin Powell, had emphasized that Washington was looking forward to New Delhi becoming a core member of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) during his March 2004 visit to India. He felt that India coul...
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