Tibet – not always part of China…
From DNA India, “Tibet wasn’t ours, says Chinese scholar” (by Venkatesan Vembu, Feb 22, ’07) – I wonder what the official reaction to this is. Some excerpts: “…In an article in the China Review magazine,...
Category: India & Its Neighbours
India, Iran and the IPI pipeline
Rohit Pattnaik, who is a Visiting Scholar at IDSA in Delhi, recently wrote a well-researched piece arguing why India can afford to take a more hardline positon vis-a-vis Iran in the oil pipeline negotiations...
On Taslima Nasreen, fatwas and burqas…
Khushwant Singh recently�penned an article in HT (“A room and a thought to spare“, Feb 16 ’07)) �strongly supporting�Tasleema Nasreen to stay in India beyond the expiry of her visa. Excerpts below (emphasis mine):...
China’s Afzal Guru…
This is how our great neighbour China treats its Afzal Gurus: A Reuters news story reported in the Indian Express (February 09, 2007), “Muslim executed for trying to ‘split’ China” ****** Beijing, February 9:...
“Watch how China defends itself” – Excerpts
While going through my long (and over-due) “to-do” list, I came across a series of articles which I had kep for a later date…They are on various t opics but all worth a read,...
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