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0 comments | by Paul Staniland
India is often hailed as a triumph of democracy in a poor, multi ethnic society. This success must be qualified by the armed challenges to the Indian state that have regularly erupted and endured during its modern history. India’s future holds more internal conflict. The Naxalite challenge poses a serious threat to the state’s reach in large areas of the interio
Read Full ArticleA Disaster in Waiting in the Himalayas
0 comments | by Jehangir Khattak
A senior Pakistani official recently issued a largely ignored statement about the environmental impact of status quo between the armies of Pakistan and India on the world’s highest battleground, the Siachen Glacier. Some military check posts on both sides here are as high as 21,000 feet above sea level.
Read Full ArticleModiFail Silicon Valley Protester Assaulted
0 comments | by Pieter Friedrich
Passionate crowds of protesters greeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with loud slogans and a sea of placards upon his arrival at San Jose's SAP Center for a stage-managed Silicon Valley “community reception.” The posters, chants, and surprise banner drop challenged the Modi PR team's attempts to whitewash the controversial politician's record. The protest was the culminat
Read Full ArticleThe Geopolitics of American Global Decline: US versus China
2 comments | by Alfred W McCoy
This is an abridged article due to space restrictions. The original was published by TomDispatch and also cross posted by Huff Post. McCoy has provided an exceptional article in a genuinely global framework. For even the greatest of empires, geography is often destiny. You wouldn’t know it in Washington, though. America’s political, national security and fo
Read Full ArticleIndian Government, Modi and RSS
0 comments | by Siddharth Varadarajan
What makes the axis between the government and the RSS so problematic is not just its extra-constitutionality but the sheer incompatibility of the RSS and its ideology with a democratic, inclusive polity and society. A bizarre political spectacle took place in Delhi this week that no amount of sophistry can square with the principles of a modern democratic republic. A &ls
Read Full ArticleRefugees Don’t Cause Fascism Timmermann – You Do
0 comments | by Dan Glazebrook
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
0 comments | by Latha Jishnu
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
0 comments | by Marguerite Rigoglioso
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
0 comments | by Paul Craig Roberts
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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