Maoists' final assault on democracy

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May 2012

An analysis of recent events related to Maoist terrorism shows that the four-decades-old phenomenon has entered its most dangerous phase. The abduction of two Italian nationals, Paolo Bosusco and Claudio Colangelo, on 18 March, the deportation...

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Sardar Patel's Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru on Tibet

Issue: Book Excerpt: The Unmaking of Nepal | Date: 03 April 2012

D.O. No. 821-DPM/50,New Delhi, 7th Nov., 1950

My dear Jawaharlal,

Ever since my return from Ahmedabad and after the Cabinet meeting the same day which I had to attend at practically fifteen minutes’...

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Iran's NBC and Missile Programme

Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 09 April 2012

Iran embarked on a comprehensive missile programme during the Iran-Iraq War. During the post war period, it has made a determined bid to enhance its missile arsenal and capabilities by reaching out to countries like North Korea and China. The...

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Strategic Significance of Maldives

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 March 2012

Strategically significant and geopolitically sensitive, Maldives, a chain of 1192 islands 199 of which are inhabited and home to 3,15,000 people, has recently been brutalized by violence and coup, shattering the very nascent and fragile edifice...

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Punjab's Pakistan

Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 13 November 2011

The part that constitutes the Punjab province in Pakistan, like other provinces of Sindh, NWFP and Balochistan, were not enthusiastic about the concept of Pakistan. It was much later, in the early 1940s, that the Muslim League made strong...

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Convergence of Terror

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 November 2011

The insurgencies that impacted the Indian landscape till early this decade were generally in isolation. Though, they, like all insurgencies had external links, but the internal linkages between them were at best tenuous. The Khalistan...

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Threat from Nepal's Instability

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 September 2011

Nepal shares a 1751 Km land boundary with India and 1414 Km with China (Tibet). Although landlocked and surrounded by these two Asian giants, Nepal’s geographic, economic and cultural orientation is exclusively intertwined with India....

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Maoists: Should India allow a PoK within the country?

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 July 2011

The cynics and vested interests have been portraying Chhattisgarh as a remote, underdeveloped, violence ridden region, where tribal are exploited and live like primitive humans in sub-human conditions. There is also the impression that almost...

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Maoists are enemeies of India II

Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 28 May 2011

The Ideological Factor

At the lower levels, the ideological factor of Maoism is clearly missing. The foot soldiers are just instruments of violence and part of the extortion industry. The lower level leaders are generally people with criminal...

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Maoists are enemies of India I

Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 27 May 2011

While the killing of Osama Bin Laden has dominated the Indian media space and the mind space of the Indians, the killing of eleven security personnel in Jharkhand by Maoists on 3rd may 2011 has been dismissed as routine. India may have to pay...

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