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Competitive intolerance: Reflections on Gandhiji’s death anniversary
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This year’s Jaipur Literary Festival was laid siege by those who vowed not to let Salman Rushdie speak there. Even before nerves jangled by this experience could recover, a new controversy erupted. Outraged Sikhs demanded that the Indian government take action against U.S. talk show host Jay Leno for his allegedly insulting remarks about the Golden Temple.read more

China’s global proxy game
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Across the world, from Iran to Sudan, Syria and Venezuela, China has been boosting the military and other capabilities of forces hostile to the NATO powers, led by the U.S. In doing this it is following a time-worn, low-cost, low-visibility strategy of draining the U.S. in particular through feints and jabs, conducted by states and organizations that are in effect proxy players for Chinese aims.read more

Can Pakistan sustain its Democracy?
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Pakistan is clearly struggling to make democracy a sustainable form of government. In the 64 years of its existence, it has only succeeded 50% of the time and that too as a democracy that keeps looking over its shoulder.Today, the fight for democracy has gained strength because of the emergence of two new pillars of the state i.e. the judiciary and the media.read more

Bangladesh: A passage through Tripura
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Morshed Khan, Bangladesh’s foreign minister from 2001 to 2006, was fond of stating that if Bangladesh was India- locked, then Tripura was Bangladesh- locked. Tripura and Bangladesh have a special history- the two share a porous border, which stretches over 800 kilometers. During Bangladesh’s struggle for independence, the people of Tripura welcomed more Bangladeshi refugees per capita into their homes than in any other civil war situation in history.read more

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New Delhi, India
26 January 2012