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INDIA – PAKISTAN: LESSONS FROM THE RUINS (I)

An excellent analysis of what haunts Indo-Pak relations and a geo-political strategy to deal with the challenges facing us in this century. Paper no. 1607 10. 11. 2005 INDIA – PAKISTAN: LESSONS FROM THE...

Four Years, Two Attacks, One Story

See if you can spot anything unusual about these two newspaper reports: ******** Report A ******* �The two groups specifically held responsible by New Delhi were Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e- Mohammed. Pakistan vigorously denied the...

Secularism or Politics of Appeasement?

A few weeks ago, I read this comment by Natwar Singh which he made during a recent speech. “Secularism in Western intellectual tradition has a clearly non-religious connotation while the Indian understanding, in contrast,...

Corruption in Public Life – Are we the only ones?

Recently, I came across this news-story in the International Herald Tribune titled, “Another Gilded Age of corruption”, by Frank Rich [International Herald Tribune, Sept 26th, ’05 Op-Ed Page] In this highly readable article Frank...