Najum MustaqNepals mainstream politicians understand both how to fight an autocratic king and how to negotiate with insurgents. But they sure do not know how to deal with agitations for rights by historically d
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Surendra MohanFor outside observers, the picture currently emerging from Nepal seems rather depressing: the continuing ill-health of 85-year-old Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala; the reluctance of the Nepal
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Devinder SharmaFarmers in United States, Europe and for that matter in other rich and industrialised countries are quitting agriculture. That makes me wonder. Why? After all, they get huge subsidies. They have
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Chris Carlson Fidel Castro is a hard core revolutionary, and what he said recently about the hanging of Saddam Hussein was pretty indicative of that. At eighty years old, gravely ill, and possibly on his
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Mneesha Gellman and Josh DankoffChher Cheng is the only female to sit as a Commune Councilor in her Cambodian village. Elected in 2002, Cheng ran in the first wave of local elections heralded by decentralizatio
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Vijayan MJWhat is bigger, a dam or the Prime Ministers integrity? You cant help asking this question when you find the nations most prestigious institutions lying to its people, proving right the Marxian theory
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Nitin SethiThe power sector gathered in an opulently polished banquet hall of a hotel in Delhi on December 16. The Arunachal government had invited them to ponder how to push for hydroelectric power generation.
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Ashish KothariOver a hundred years back, advancing British troops found themselves facing a determined warrior tribe in the highlands of Nagaland. The Angami men of Khonoma, famed for their prowess and strategi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Vidya Bhushan RawatBJPs 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 lear
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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
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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
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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
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Siddharth Srivastava Indian workers will pocket the worlds highest-percentage salary increases in 2007, according to an international survey, thanks to a severe manpower shortage combined with strong econo
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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
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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
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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
