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  • Ruckus over Referendum I: Taiwanese Moves
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   18 Dec, 2003    ·    #1250    ·    Commentary    
    On 27 November, Taiwanese lawmakers adopted a proposal that gave the island’s president the power to hold an independence referendum in case of “ex...
  • Burmese Refugees in Delhi: Refugees Refused Refugee Status
    Paolienlal Haokip    ·   17 Dec, 2003    ·    #1249    ·    Commentary    
    It has been almost two months (Since 20 October) when the Burmese refugees in Delhi started a sit-in protest before the UNHCR office in Lodi Road, Delhi, braving arrests and rough handling by the Delhi police by day and the chill of winter by ni...
  • Attack on Hindi-speaking People in Assam (Regional Media Survey, 16-30 November 2003)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   17 Dec, 2003    ·    #1248    ·    Commentary    
    Attack on Hindi-speaking people in Assam Vernacular newspapers in Assam provided front-page details of the attacks on Hindi-speaking people in the state and other related developments. On November 18, the Asamiya Pratidin described the stri...
  • Afghanistan: Pain under the Veil
    Saji Cherian    ·   17 Dec, 2003    ·    #1247    ·    Commentary    
    Vida Samadzai, a dark-eyed brunette of the Pashtun tribe who fled Afghanistan with her family in 1996, stepped out in a red bikini at an international beauty pageant as Miss Afghanistan, professing to make the world aware of “Afghan women ...
  • The Stranded Pakistanis: Statelessness in Bangladesh
    R Ramasubramanian    ·   13 Dec, 2003    ·    #1246    ·    Commentary    
    The Biharis or ‘stranded Pakistanis’ as they are sometimes called, were an Urdu-speaking Muslim minority living in the majority Hindu region of Bihar in pre-independence India. With the breakup of India in 1947, a large group fled to...
  • APHC Responds to Delhi (Urdu Media Survey 16-30 November 2003)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   13 Dec, 2003    ·    #1245    ·    Commentary    
    Talks Offer and the APHC In its lead news, the daily Nadia Musharraq (16 November 2003) reported that Delhi was attempting to rope in the Geelani-led Hurriyat faction in the forthcoming talks. "On 22 October Delhi invited Abbas Ansari&...
  • An Emerging Space Race
    Ajay Lele    ·   12 Dec, 2003    ·    #1244    ·    Commentary    
    It could be said that the ‘space era’ started with the launching of the Soviet Union’s first vehicle Sputnik-1 into the earth orbit on 4 October 1957. Since then space technology has been used for both military and civilian pur...
  • Naxalism in Karnataka: Product of Mis-Governance?
       ·   12 Dec, 2003    ·    #1243    ·    Commentary    
    Naxal activity in Karnataka, subdued through police crackdown, implementation of rehabilitation schemes in border districts and infighting has resurfaced recently. Naxal menace, earlier confined to Raichur and Tumkur districts bordering Andhra P...
  • Crises in Sri Lanka – Prospects and India’s Options
    N Manoharan    ·   12 Dec, 2003    ·    #1242    ·    Commentary    
    Speakers: Dr P Sahadevan, Jawaharlal Nehru University Mr Narayan Swamy, News Editor, IANS Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee, Director, IPCS ...
  • Nepal: ‘Unified Command’ – Militarization of Society?
    P G Rajamohan    ·   12 Dec, 2003    ·    #1241    ·    Commentary    
    Barely out of shock over the collapse of the peace process have the Government and the political parties in Nepal impelled the people into a state of confusion with the debate on ‘Unified Command’. Immediately after the break up of p...
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