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 Cambodias northeast once made it an ideal hideout for Vietcong, Khmer Rouge, wildlife poachers and illegal loggers. The same isolation had in recent years drawn
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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 learn and e
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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 such worries a
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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 soc
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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
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Santwana Bhattacharya\ Source: AsiaTimesTwelve days after the very surprising Indian election results were out, 10 days after Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam chief V Prabhakaran's body was found by the Sri Lan
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Vaprumu DemoTiring 12 years of negotiation and nearing 60 rounds of exhaustive talks between the NSCN(IM) and the GOI unfortunately, have not yield any desired result beyond the highfaluting rhetoric and decept
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James PattersonThe anniversary of Kevin Rudds apology to Australias aboriginal community has come and gone. What difference has it made?Id have thought that the Aboriginals would have been pretty happy with the
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Forum for Naga ReconciliationStanding at the threshold of the year 2009, we are in what might be called a Post-Ambivalent year in the life of the Nagas. The bygone cynicism and skepticism toward Naga solidarity
Tarsh ThekaekaraMany countries have ill treated and persecuted their indigenous people, often in worse ways than India. But while some leaders like Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have gone on record to ap-
Prashant BhushanThe recent horrendous terror attacks in Mumbai are obviously totally atrocious. They have woken up our elite citizenry of Mumbai and the country to the dangers of terrorism as nothing ever has.
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Conor GeartyA landmark anniversary is a moment to move beyond complacency and engage in critical self-reflection of the foundation of human rightsThere is much natural jubilation over the fact that the Universa
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Wu ZhongChinas strong reaction to French President Nicolas Sarkozys weekend meeting with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader in exile, is unprecedented. From Beijings perspective, there is ample reason
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Rev.L. Suohie MhasiWe Nagas are proud of our people being around 95% are professed Christians. When our people were in severe affliction, the people prayed to God for their security and protection and God was s
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Nehemiah RongNagas inheritance was and is freedom, their land, independence and democratic governance, economic self reliance, quick and just delivery and disposal judicial system based on traditional customary
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Dr. Paul PimomoFor months Ive been bothered by a nightmare. A series of violent images, connected and disconnected and nauseatingly repetitive, has haunted me but I cant get rid of it. The names of places and p
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Dreams do come true. Yes I thought so to myself on the night of october5 when I read the news about how the urban development department was going to fund the communitisation project. Here is just another criti
