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Refugees Don’t Cause Fascism Timmermann – You Do
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Europe needs to fascisise its policies, because if it doesn’t - fascism will grow. This was the message from Frans Timmerman, Vice-President of the European Commission following last week’s fraught negotiations over the so-called refugee crisis. "We have to patrol our borders better”, he
Read Full ArticleTerrorism’s saffron fault line
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COLOURS have strong associations and tend to be coded in our psyche. They are linked, sometimes inexorably, to our politics, culture and social biases. The way we respond to people, events and situations is prompted by the colour coding embedded in us, however subtly these triggers might work. Often our responses symbolise rank prejudice. Right-wing demagogue Bal Thackeray who founded th
Read Full ArticleScholar Casts New Light on Hindu-Muslim relations
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Stanford Scholar Audrey Truschke research paints a far different picture than common perceptions, which assume that the Muslim presence has always been hostile to Indian languages, religions and culture. A leading scholar of South Asian cultural and intellectual history, Truschke argues that this more divisive interpretation actually developed during the colonial period from 1757 t
Read Full ArticleIndia Planned military strikes on Pakistan Nuclear Installation-CIA Report
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The first woman prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, considered a military strike on Pakistan’s nuclear installations to prevent it from acquiring weapons capabilities, a declassified CIA document has claimed. Indian Exp
Read Full ArticleA Decisive Shift In The Power Balance Has Occurred
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Russian airstrikes in Syria against Islamist anti-government forces heightened the danger of Washington’s four-and-a-half-year war for regime-change triggering a clash between the world’s two biggest nuclear powers. US policy in Syria was already mired in crisis prior to Russia’s airstrikes. More than a year of bombing had failed to weaken ISIS’ contr
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Corruption is a Human Rights Issue International law does not currently regard an act of official corruption as the violation of a human right. But as recent steps by Chinese leaders, political/security shifts in Pakistan, the EuroMaidan in Ukraine, and the Arab Spring all reflect, an international consensus is emerging that corruption is a pervasive and pernicious social problem, stru
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Lisa Journal Issue 29 was published in second week January2014 is now available on line. To view click LISA JOURNAL.
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Kashmir Thousands of them have been killed (close to 100,000), countless women dishonoured, houses burnt, people displaced, businesses shattered; why after all should this happen. There is an answer to it. It is short answer but one that sums up crux of the matter. The single sentence answer is: the Kashmiri people have never accepted India’
Read Full ArticleEditorial LISA Journal Issue-24
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GEOSTRATEGIC CHANGES IN SOUTH ASIA Currently there are important geostrategic changes taking place in South Asia. After decades of mistrust and hostility, Russia and Pakistan are now seeing the enormous strategic benefits of a bilateral relationship. In this fast-changing and evolving international scenario, Russian interests in Pakistan are beginning to unfold. Though P
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Pakistan Media Corrupted Starting 2010 the Obama administration made plans to spend nearly $50 million on Pakistani media to reverse anti-American sentiments. This has done wonders as one sees the erstwhile hostile (anti US policy)TV anchors changed like chameleon changes its colours. In the perception of many Pakistanis, the card being played right now by US est
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