Sudha RamachandranSource: AsiaTimes A series of steps taken by India in recent months to build up its defenses along its disputed frontier with China has prompted an angry response from the latter. In June
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One of the things that has helped human beings develop over thousands of years of recorded and unrecorded history is the spirit of adventure. In the past many have risked their lives to explore the unknown –
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Aaradhana JhunjhunwalaThe ongoing security crisis in West Bengal exposes the cracks in Indian democracy, stemming from a volatile mix of poor governance, petty politics, and a fundamental breakdown in credibili
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Brian McCartanUnited Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon’s failure to win the release of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi - or any other conciliatory concession - from Myanmar’s intransigent
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Tuisem A. Shishak I am honored to address the first convocation of Patkai Christian College (PCC). Let us be reminded of the God who brought this College into being 35 years ago: “Unless the
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Many react to the news of ‘Rape’ with utter shock and disbelief. Condemnations, processions, relays, memorandums and news write-ups usually follow. Initially the wrath of the society falls on the accused th
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Gregory Mthembu-SalterThe international tribunal charged with investigating the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 has some significant achievements to its credit. But a series of problematic decisions casts a shadow o
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Gregory Mthembu-SalterThe international tribunal charged with investigating the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 has some significant achievements to its credit. But a series of problematic decisions casts a shadow o
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Brian McCartan Source: AsiaTimesFighting between government forces and ethnic rebel groups in Myanmar’s Karen State has in recent weeks pushed thousands of refugees into neighboring Thailand. The upsurge
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K. ElaThe churches in all nook and corners of the villages must be made aware and sensitized about the dangers of sending their children outside the state in the name of free education, job, training, mission w
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Claude ArpiAung San Suu Kyi has just spent her 64th birthday in Burma’s infamous Insein Prison. She has been charged with ‘violating’ the terms of her house arrest. If found guilty, she faces a long term
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Naga Reconciliation: A Journey of Common Hope, has become a common phrase today. This journey that we have embarked together for the last year and a half has been no smooth sailing. But we have come thus
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Aditya SinhaTwo Saturdays ago, the bodies of 22-year-old Nilofar and her 17-year-old sister-in-law Asiya were found separately in a stream in Shopian, south Kashmir. They had likely been raped, possibly by secu
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Stephen KurczySource: AsiaTimesThe remoteness of Cambodia’s northeast once made it an ideal hideout for Vietcong, Khmer Rouge, wildlife poachers and illegal loggers. The same isolation had in recent years dra
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“No charges! No commissions, as such, for the service we are meant to provide customers” – couple of Bank officials answered back to my ‘deliberate’ provocative query.What a shame! I was made to
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Mira KamdarA strong, stable Congress government may be good for business, but can it contend with the real, looming threat of environmental catastrophe?Business and financial communities reacted with outright e
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M.S. PrabhakaraAnxieties about ‘identity’, a catch-all term for a variety of contradictory perceptions and passions by a people about themselves and the ‘Other’, and political mobilisation exploiting su
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M.S. Swaminathan In its latest election manifesto the Congress pledged to “enact a Right to Food Law that guarantees access to sufficient food for all people, particularly the most vulnerable sectors of
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Li DatongThe fourth day of June - written as "6.4" in Chinese - never used to have any special significance. But in the last twenty years, since the events that culminated in the early hours of 4 June 1989 in B
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Tom LodgeTwo years since the establishment of its power-sharing executive following the March 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland assembly, the peace process in the territory appears firmly entrenched. The c
