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Hu’s Successor is Xi
October 27 , 2010 Debasish Chaudhuri
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Appointment of Vice President Xi Jinping to the post of Vice Chairman of Central Military Commission (CMC) in the recently concluded Fifth Plenum of the 17th Congress of CPC further indicates that the s...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Nobel Peace Prize when Awarded to a Prisoner of State
October 13 , 2010 Debasish Chaudhuri
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Before the Tiananmen Student Movement of 1989, Deng Xiaoping, architect of China’s reform and opening to the wider world, repeatedly urged his countrymen to maintain a stable political environment. He e...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Deconstructing Musharraf’s Confessions
October 13 , 2010 Sushant Sareen
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There is something quite pathetic about the sensational confessions of a loquacious former military dictator harbouring fond, if utterly unrealistic, hopes of making a comeback in his country’s politics...

Pakistan

Military and Militants Join Hands to Target Nato Convoys?
October 11 , 2010 Sushant Sareen
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It has been a double whammy for the American war effort in the Afpak region: not only have the Americans been made to eat humble pie and ‘apologise’ to the Pakistanis for the helicopter attack on a Fron...

Pakistan

Manipur: The State under seize and the way forward - A study of contemporary setting and policy options
October 4 , 2010 Jaideep Saikia
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Manipur—which literally translates into the “bejewelled land” — is the most disturbed state in the North East, accounting for 47 per cent of the insurgency related violence in the region. Perched in an...

North-East Insurgency

Getting ‘Stoned’ by the Stones
September 28 , 2010 Sushant Sareen
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Since June, the stone-pelting in Kashmir seems to have left the Indian establishment stupefied. The government, both in the state and at the centre, has been reduced to a state of paralysis, almost as t...

Jammu & Kashmir

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