COMMENTARIES
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The Attack on Chandrababu Naidu: Glaring Security Lapse
Mallika Joseph · 03 Oct, 2003 · #1170 · Commentary
The attack on the life of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has once again brought into focus the lethality of these devises and their use by the Naxalites. The security lapse is glaring, p...
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Dispensing ‘Best’ Justice – II: Raising Fundamental Questions
Aisha Sultanat · 01 Oct, 2003 · #1169 · Commentary
The Best Bakery case has raised some fundamental questions on a range of issues. Here are some that impinge on critical aspects of governance.
Government accountability
When protectors from crime become the perpetrators of crim...
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Dispensing ‘Best’ Justice – I: Relevance of Witness Protection Program
Aisha Sultanat · 01 Oct, 2003 · #1168 · Commentary
The Best Bakery case has generated a heated debate in its wake on some of the glaring inadequacies in the existing system of judicial dispensation, with particular reference to the witness protection program. Citing the centrality of witness pro...
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Politician-Naxalite Nexus in Andhra Pradesh
P V Ramana · 30 Sep, 2003 · #1167 · Commentary
The dangerous trend of politician-left-wing extremist (Naxalite) nexus continues to be alive in Andhra Pradesh. It needs to be rooted out, sooner than later, if peace is ever to come to the region. On 19 September 2003, the vernacular Telugu med...
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Child Soldiers II: Preference for Children and Preference by Children
N Manoharan · 30 Sep, 2003 · #1166 · Commentary
Wars are fought by adults. The use of children in combat activities is revolting, especially when children are drawn into violent conflict for the fact of being children. There are two major factors behind children being preferred for soldiering...
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Suicide Bombers: A New Front Opens in Iraq
Jabin T Jacob · 29 Sep, 2003 · #1165 · Commentary
The
suicide bomber phenomenon had a faster genesis in American-occupied
Iraq, in comparison to the Palestinians who adopted this tactic in the
mid-1990s after several decades of Israeli occupation.
Iraq has been a secular Arab entity, bu...
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Spurt in Militant Violence- Tough Times for the Security Forces
Amin Masoodi · 29 Sep, 2003 · #1164 · Commentary
Following the killing of Jaish-e-Muhammed chief, Gazi Baba, mastermind behind the parliament attack and the outfit’s, deputy commander, Nasir Mahmood Ahwan, there has been a renewed spurt in militant violence. The militant groups continue ...
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Reverberating Northeast (Regional Media Survey, September 1-20, 2003)
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 29 Sep, 2003 · #1163 · Commentary
Visit of the Bhutanese King to India
The visit of the Bhutanese King to New Delhi in the second week of September raised enormous hopes in the media regarding an early dismantling of the militant camps in that country. On September 14, the ...
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Kuka Parray’s killing – A setback to the peace process
Amin Masoodi · 29 Sep, 2003 · #1162 · Commentary
The killing of Mohd.Yousuf Parray alias Kuka Parray, a former militant-turned political leader, is a major setback to counter-insurgency operations and the peace process in Jammu & Kashmir. Kuka Parray, a folk singer in his youth who commonl...
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Indefensible Defence
Sonika Gupta · 25 Sep, 2003 · #1161 · Commentary
We have seen it all now. Mulayam Singh Yadav defended Amaramani Tripathi, accused in the Madhumita murder case, as the “saviour of UP.” Tripathi is being rewarded for voting in favor of the SP government at a time when Mulayam Singh ...
