COMMENTARIES
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Anti-War Protests: Who Cares?
Ajay Lele · 21 Mar, 2003 · #992 · Commentary
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Huge anti-war protests are taking place all over the world against the invasion of Iraq by the US. Several reasons underlie these protests ...
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MCC and Maoists: Expanding Naxal Violence in Bihar
Sanjay K Jha · 15 Mar, 2003 · #991 · Commentary
In the last week of February 2003, security agencies in Bihar unearthed a well-entrenched network of Nepalese Maoists in Patna. Five Maoists were arrested when a hideout of the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) was busted in Patrakar colony on 25 Fe...
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Infiltration into J&K: Information Chaos
Nihar Nayak · 15 Mar, 2003 · #990 · Commentary
Since December 2002, several contradictory statements have been made on cross border infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). On December 6, the then Chief of the Army Staff, General S Padmanabhan, commenting on the Russian President, Vlad...
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State of Politics in Tripura
Praveen Kumar · 15 Mar, 2003 · #989 · Commentary
The 18 member Left Front ministry led by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, sworn in on 7 March 2003, has an important task before it – bringing the decades-long insurgency to a decisive end. This wo...
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South Asia Inching Towards Water War
Avilash Roul · 21 Mar, 2003 · #988 · Commentary
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The much-quoted prediction of Ismail Serageldin, former vice president of the World Bank, that the twenty-first century war would be over water...
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Sea Piracy: India Boosts Countermeasures
Vijay Sakhuja · 15 Mar, 2003 · #987 · Commentary
On 25 February 2003, in a landmark judgment an Indian court in Mumbai sentenced fourteen pirates of Indonesian origin to rigorous imprisonment terms ranging from six months to seven years. The pirates have been accused of hijacking the Japanese-...
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For a Return to Clausewitz
Firdaus Ahmed · 15 Mar, 2003 · #986 · Commentary
In mobilizing its armed forces and thereby extracting from Pakistan a promise to back off from supporting jehadi groups in Kashmir, India claims to have called Pakistan’s bluff. On the other ha...
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The Migrant Menace
Aisha Sultanat · 07 Mar, 2003 · #985 · Commentary
The grave concern shown by LK Advani, the Deputy Prime Minister (also in charge of the Home portfolio) about the illegal immigrants, at a gathering of senior police officials in the Capital has drawn attention to the growing number of refugees t...
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India-US Relations: Promoting Synergy
· 06 Mar, 2003 · #984 · Commentary
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Bhutan?s Dilemma of Democracy
Anand Kumar · 07 Mar, 2003 · #983 · Commentary
A significant progress was made by Bhutan towards democracy when its Constitution Drafting Committee submitted the first draft of the constitution; the constitutional process was started by the Royalty of Bhutan to give more powers to the Bhutan...
