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  • An Appeal For Truce Among Naga Political Factions
    Xavier P Mao21st century is known as the century of Dialogue and Negotiation. Therefore, I propose a dialogue among all the Four Naga factions namely the 2-NNC and the 2-NSCN to be mediated by two representativ
  • Facing Mecca
    Uri AvneryMust a Native-American recognize the right of the United States of America to exist?Interesting question. The USA was established by Europeans who invaded a continent that did not belong to them, erad
  • Contemporary Times – Role Of Religions
    Ram PuniyaniCurrent times are witnessing violence of severe nature all around in which religion is projected one of the reasons. It is also projected as a clash between people of two religions and that people b
  • Israeli Politics Of ‘Archeology’ In Jerusalem
    Nicola NasserThe Israeli arrogance of being the regional military super power, unequivocally backed by the U.S. world super power, is dictating a kind of politics that deals trivially with the national and reli
  • Hate As A Weapon To Gain Power
    Vidya Bhushan RawatBJP’s manifesto for Uttarakhand reflects the bankruptcy of its ideology. That Sanskrit will be the state language and the government would pass anti conversion laws shows that BJP has not l
  • Feminism East and West
    Smita PoudelIn orthodox Hindu societies women usually wear the sari or the salwar kameej, which is generally regarded as respectable. In conservative Hindu cultures a woman seen wearing pants or a T-shirt inste
  • Farce follows disaster
    Max MartinThe top down approach of the Disaster Management Act had its advantages but completely ignored local knowledge and ways of living.Six years after the release of the India Disasters Report the Indian g
  • Civil Liberties In India
    Teesta SetalvadFriends,As I stand here to accept this award given in memory of a man who has been described alternately as a passionate democrat, a patriot and above a good human being I cannot but recall how t
  • Indians to get a big raise
    Siddharth Srivastava Indian workers will pocket the world’s highest-percentage salary increases in 2007, according to an international survey, thanks to a severe manpower shortage combined with strong ec
  • India’s trailblazer losing its way
    Sudha Ramachandran Barely two weeks after Hindu-Muslim riots rocked Bangalore, another wave of violence is threatening to engulf the city. A tribunal verdict regarding sharing of the waters of the River Ca
  • Reconciliation and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia
    Mneesha Gellman and Josh Dankoff     We sat around the breakfast table gently sweating along with our hosts in the early morning heat. Tola served porridge for the guests, then put a big scoop of
  • Nepal rioting threatens political transition
    Dhruba Adhikary The disturbances that mountainous Nepal is currently facing in the southern plains, called Terai, threaten to blossom into a separatist movement as in Sri Lanka. And they could derail the p
  • Globalization and terror: the O’Loan report
    Toni solo  Nuala O’Loan’s recent report on UK government security forces’ collusion with Loyalist death squads in the north of Ireland points up various historical reminders of relevance now as the B
  • The Taliban’s flower power
    Syed Saleem Shahzad Western officials involved in counter-narcotics operations in Afghanistan estimate that this year the country will produce its biggest poppy crop in history. Nevertheless, Taliban-domin
  • The generals fall out in Myanmar
    Larry Jagan Myanmar’s top generals are in the throes of a full-blown power struggle as they grapple with how best to introduce significant political reforms, including a planned move toward some form of
  • The Bull’s Eye
    Aaron KikonChumukedimaThe Taj Mahal was once but just a thought, an idea, a dream in the mind of a man called Shah Jahan. But when he went about realising that dream, the result was the Taj Mahal. I believe the
  • The Great Ahmedabad Trial of Mahatma Gandhi
    Bal PatilI think it would be most appropriate to recall the great Ahmedabad trial at this juncture when the centennial of the Gandhian satyagraha in South Africa is commemorated worldwide. When Mahatma Gandhi e
  • The Flight To Freedom
    Meredith Terretta  Most of the reviewers of Ngugi’s latest novel, Wizard of the Crow, corral the book into two major themes they find in its 760 pages. The first exposes corrupt dictators in postcolonial
  • Kidnapping, India’s new growth industry
    Indrajit Basu Guess what is the current status symbol in Assam - a tea-growing state in northeastern India - these days? It is not the latest-model multi-utility vehicle, the price of which could buy a sma
  • Zimbabwe: A Bad Place for Journalists
    Ambrose MusiyiwaZimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe has been named as one of the 33 leading “predators of press freedom” in the world.“Whether presidents, ministers, chiefs of staff, religious leaders or
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