Reconfiguring Bangladesh - India Relations: A Masochist's Fantasy Or Tilting...
by TARIQ A. KARIMAt the time when the offer of this assignment as High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India was made to me in mid-2009, I was in a think-tank in Bangladesh1 where my primary focus of...
View ArticleBangladesh: Battle for a New Future
Developments within the country and in our neighbourhood have moved at a fast pace in recent days. The DMK's decision to sever its ties with the UPA and walk out of the ruling coalition at the Centre...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Behind Rajapaksa's Defiance
What was widely anticipated has now been confirmed. The Sri Lankan Government reaffirmed on April 9 that it does not concur with the US-sponsored resolution adopted at the UN Human Rights Council...
View ArticleA Journey to Afzal's Village in Sopore
This piece was sent sometime ago but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.by Gazala PeerWhen the seven-day siege of Kashmir was over, I decided to pay a visit to Sopore to the family of...
View ArticleWho Will Be India's Next PM?
Who will be India's PM after the 2014 general elections? This is a question being hotly debated in the print and electronic media. It is taken for granted that the incumbent Prime Minister, who has...
View ArticleViolence in American Society
In his book, The End of the American Century, David S. Mason draws the reader's attention to some shcoking facts of American life. “The United States is the most violent country in the industrialised...
View ArticleConstitutional Dilemma and Historical Injustice to Tribals
by B.K. ManishBefore the Supreme Court goes for its summer break, it faces a huge dilemma. An appeal challenging the order of the Chhattisgarh High Court in a tribal rights matter is coming up for...
View ArticleThatcher feared Islam
I met Mrs Margaret Thatcher for the first time when I was India's envoy at London in 1990. At that time she was counting on her achievements, including the triumph in the Cold War. I sent her a...
View ArticleRemembering October-November 1984
From N.C.'s WritingsEarly next week, on October 31, the country would be observing the tenth death anniversary of Indira Gandhi who had been cruelly shot down on this very day by her own security...
View ArticleAmerican-style Integration in the Asia-Pacific
According to international economic experts, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is one of the core issues of Washington's “Returning to Asia” strategy. However, unlike a number of other economic...
View ArticleWho Can Take On Narendra Modi?
MUSINGSNarendra Modi seems doing nothing much to his semi-parched and drought hit State; in fact, focusing only on giving speeches to a select crowd of New Delhi. Before I write any further, it seemed...
View ArticleBoston and Bengaluru, Growing BJP-JD(U) Rift
Two days after twin blasts near the finish line of the famous Boston marathon shattered the post-9/11 calm in the US killing three persons (including an eight-year-old) and injuring close to 170, 17 of...
View ArticleIlaiah's Tilak is Communal to the Core
BOOK REVIEWby Poornima JoshiUntouchable God by Kancha Ilaiah; Publishers: Samya; pages: 248; Price: Rs 350.Kancha Ilaiah is not an easy scholar to digest, with his brutal polemic against the...
View ArticleA Rejoinder to Grover Furr: Points Not Met
COMMUNICATIONI went through Grover Furr's reply (Mainstream, April 6, 2013) to my comments. Unfortunately, he meets none of the points raised by me, and repeats his views mechanically without...
View ArticlePolitical Reading of "Well Done Abba" a Tale of Our Times
by Raj Kumar ThakurThe very idea that one's self is independent from the larger socio-political realities is very clearly brought under scrutiny—instead what emerges is connected lives, with water, the...
View ArticleComments on "How India is Turning into China"
The article brings to bear the writer's formidable skills for broad-brush painting of the contemporary scene with a keen eye on history to give us some valuable insights about the commonalities in the...
View ArticleHow India is Turning into China
Noted writer Pankaj Mishra wrote the following piece that appeared in The New Republic (December 21, 2012) from where it is being reproduced, with due acknowledgement, alongwith a response from retired...
View ArticleWhy Iran is Crucial for Both India and Pakistan
by Tridivesh Singh Maini and Usman ShahidThe following article has been sent to us by Usman Shahid, a Pakistani national, from Lahore. He and Tridivesh Singh Maini (who is an Indian) have recently...
View ArticleIn Response to Dr Gilbert Sebastian
COMMUNICATIONThis is in response to the article published in Mainstream on March 16, 2013, "Patriarchy and the Rise of Sexual Assaults in India: An Explanation" by Dr Gilbert Sebastian.Violence...
View ArticleHeightened Tensions in POSCO Project Area
DOCUMENTFact-Finding Report on the Situation in the Wake of Bomb Blast in Jagatsinghpur District, OdishaExecutive SummaryOn March 9, 2013, a 12-member team consisting of human rights activists,...
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