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  • Japan and the Sri Lankan Peace Process: A Low Key Intervention of a “Soft Power”
    N Manoharan    ·   19 Sep, 2003    ·    #1153    ·    Commentary    
    The “international safety net” has been successful in keeping the peace process in Sri Lanka alive. There is “facilitation” by Norway; support from the United States; and a “supplementary” role for Japan in th...
  • Encounters: Not Enough to Counter Organised Crime
    Prafulla Ketkar    ·   19 Sep, 2003    ·    #1152    ·    Commentary    
    The recent encounter death of gangster Sunil Manchekar, who was ruling Thane city, has revived the debate on the efficacy of encounters as a strategy to counter organized crime. Mumbai, being the epicenter of organized crime in India, has a long...
  • The Exit of Mayawati
    R Radhakrishnan    ·   17 Sep, 2003    ·    #1151    ·    Commentary    
    The return of the Samajwadi Party to power in Uttar Pradesh has vindicated the distinct nature of U.P. politics which is marked by regular defections, caste based alliances, political opportunism and abuse of the state apparatus.   &nb...
  • India and Israel: Common Cause against Terrorism?
    Sonika Gupta    ·   17 Sep, 2003    ·    #1150    ·    Commentary    
    Israel and India have joined forces in the fight terrorism and it is hoped that Israeli expertise in countering terrorism will help in tackling terrorism within India. It seems to have slipped everyone’s attention that Israel has failed to...
  • The Iranian Nuclear Weapons Issue: A Non-Zero-Sum Game
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   17 Sep, 2003    ·    #1149    ·    Commentary    
    After failing to discover WMDs in Iraq, President Bush’s “axis of evil” thesis has got a fresh lease of life. First the North Koreans, and now the Iranians, have been indicted as pursuing nuclear weapons programmes, either over...
  • Operation Spider Web in Bangladesh
    Anand Kumar    ·   16 Sep, 2003    ·    #1148    ·    Commentary    
    Operation Spider Web was launched in the southwestern districts of Bangladesh after all regular defensive measures and combing operations by police miserably failed to bring the law and order situation under control. This was the second joint op...
  • Forests and Environmental Security
    Col. PK Gautam    ·   16 Sep, 2003    ·    #1147    ·    Commentary    
    The current level of carbon in the atmosphere is 380 parts per million (ppm). This amount is one third higher that before the industrial age began. A study by the Inter Governmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) has calculated that to reduce w...
  • Recent Terrorist Strikes – Causes and Remedies
       ·   16 Sep, 2003    ·    #1146    ·    Commentary    
    Chair:  PR Chari   Speakers: Maj Gen Afsir Karim Prof Riaz Punjab...
  • Neglected Northeast: Whose Responsibility?
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   15 Sep, 2003    ·    #1145    ·    Commentary    
    The reason for economic backwardness of India’s northeast, accounting for 7.7 per cent of country’s geographical area and 3.72 per cent of its population can be attributed to the tendency of the State governments in the reg...
  • Northeast’s Money Grass and Opportunity for Peace
    Richard Mahapatra    ·   15 Sep, 2003    ·    #1144    ·    Commentary    
    Bamboo flowering in Mizoram always brings the horrors of two decades old insurgency back into the collective memory of its people. Come 2004, the bamboo forests in the state will flower and there are already reports of sporadic bamboo fl...
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