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  • LTTE and Tamil Nadu: A Nexus
    Sabil Francis    ·   14 Nov, 2000    ·    #430    ·    Commentary    
    War begins in the minds of men. But to wage war, they need weapons. This is the key difference between a successful insurgency like that of the Tigers in Sri Lanka and the failed one like that of the Tibetans in the mid-1950s. Very few reb...
  • A Recipe for the Kargil War, May 1999
    Brig Chandra B Khanduri    ·   04 Nov, 2000    ·    #429    ·    Commentary    
    Since the publication of the Kargil Review Committee Report on December 15, 1999, the ‘fog of war’ is lifting. There are reports of Brig. Surinder Singh being given a ‘show cause notice’ to be dismissed/discharged from serv...
  • Democratic Anti-thesis: Information Desert in Sri Lanka
    N Manoharan    ·   04 Nov, 2000    ·    #428    ·    Commentary    
    Media is the main information source for civil society and provides an excellent feedback, in a democratic set-up. If the ‘Fourth Estate’ does not enjoy freedom then checks and balances on the other three organs of government are distu...
  • Thinking about the Unthinkable
    Prof. RVR Chandrasekhara Rao    ·   04 Nov, 2000    ·    #427    ·    Commentary    
    The Book, Dragon Fire, by British journalist, Humphrey Hawksley, is ostensibly a novel. A fictitious scenario of nuclear war involving India , Pakistan and China , with the U.S. , U.K. , and Russia willy-nilly g...
  • Lashkar-e-Shivba: Do we really need it?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   23 Oct, 2000    ·    #426    ·    Commentary    
    The Lashkar-e-Shivba has been formed by youth in Pune and Sangli in reaction to the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s anti-Indian activities. It is designed to be a people’s force against the Tayyaba and Hizbul Mujahideen. When youth in Maharashtr...
  • Sino Indian Relations: Time to start afresh
    Sonika Gupta    ·   23 Oct, 2000    ·    #425    ·    Commentary    
    Both China and India realise that as neighbours they must coexist, hence there is a new willingness to mend bilateral relations. However, this willingness is tempered by the lack of existing trust between the two. India has a hangover from the 1...
  • RDX & IEDs: The Deadly Duet
    D Suba Chandran    ·   20 Oct, 2000    ·    #424    ·    Commentary    
    Though various militant groups in the subcontinent have been using IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) for the last few years with increasing regularity, recent killings have highlighted their deadly impact. Of all the weapons that the militants p...
  • Initiating IEDs in the Small Arms Debate
    Mallika Joseph    ·   20 Oct, 2000    ·    #423    ·    Commentary    
    In 1991, the Indian Army recovered apart from other ammunition and arms, 151 machine guns and 849 pistols from the Kashmir militants. In 1999, the figures for the same items stood at 59 and 385 respectively.  In 1991, the Army also se...
  • Kalapani: A Bone of Contention Between India and Nepal
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   17 Oct, 2000    ·    #422    ·    Commentary    
    The Kalapani, is a 35 square kilometer area claimed by India and Nepal . It has been  embroiled in controversy since mid-1996, shortly after the ratification of the Mahakali treaty with India by Nepal ’s Pa...
  • India-Japan Relations: Visit of Japanese Prime Minister to India
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   17 Oct, 2000    ·    #421    ·    Commentary    
    General Background     In 1947 when India emerged as an independent nation, Japan lay prostrate after the defeat inflicted by the United States using atomic weapons against Japan in 1945. Vic...
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