A double standard at the UN
Prof. Brahma Chellaney wrote this Op-Ed piece for the International Herald Tribune last week (Aug 30/31) highlighting the double standards that the UN (and the US + its allies in Western Europe) have adopted...
Category: India & Its Neighbours
Tibet Railway to extend to Nepal
News reports from earlier this week re. China’s plans to extend the Tibetan railway all te way to Nepal. Worrying. The same story on Sina. Excerpts: “China’s newly-built railway to Tibet will be extended...
India-China-Japan-US and the politics of energy
Dear friend Ashutosh alerted me to this snippet. Here are his accompanying comments: ****** Just to give you some more factoids about the geo-politics of energy between China and Japan. Expect this to become a full...
Madrassas on Nepal border…
The government still appears to be unwilling to make the�link between the increasing number of Madrassas along the India-Nepal border and infiltration of terrorists from Pakistan via Nepal. See this: “Around 1900 Islamic seminaries...
BBC – no longer independent and certainly not unbiased…
I belong to a generation brought up to believe that there was no more authoritative source of news in the world than the BBC. As a student and for many years later, I cultivated a...
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