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Book review: Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia0
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- January 18, 2021
Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia, by Ayesha Jalal, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 2008, Paperback, 400 pgs, $21.15 Amazon, ISBN-13: 978-0674047365- by Arnold Zeitlin 18 January 2021 The concept of jihad has roiled the Islamic world and the rest of the world since the beginning of the Islamic era. The Arabic
READ MOREIndia’s options in responding to the China problem in Nepal0
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- January 18, 2021
by Rushali Saha 18 January 2021 Prime Minister K.P Oli’s “sudden” dissolution of Nepal’s parliament’s lower house, albeit unprecedented, should not come as a surprise to those following Nepal’s domestic politics— which has been marred by a power tussle for a long time now. In its 2018 electoral victory, K.P. Oli’s government—formed out of
READ MOREAmerican Telugu Association rejuvenates its Emergency Services – ATA SEVA0
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- January 18, 2021
Bhuvanesh Boojala took charge as the new President of the American Telugu Association, ATA, a premier umbrella Organization serving the Telugu people’s needs across North America. Mr.Boojala, who hails from the Washington DC area, has been an ardent follower of ATA since 2004 and, as a Coordinator, was instrumental in the success of the
READ MOREMiddle East futures: Decade(s) of defiance and dissent0
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- January 18, 2021
By James M. Dorsey 18 January 2021 An earlier version of this article appeared in Orient. If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle East’s political landscape. Protests in the coming decade are likely to be fuelled
READ MORESri Lanka: It’s not diplomacy, Mr Watson0
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- January 18, 2021
Dr. Nalin de Silva met with the senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar during the visit to Nay Pyi Taw by N Sathiya Moorthy 18 January 2021 The way he is continuing with his India-bashing exercise even as he remains the nation’s envoy to Myanmar, the Foreign Ministry should advice Prof
READ MOREUnderstanding Hindutva Neoliberalism in India0
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- January 17, 2021
by Bhabani Shankar Nayak 18 January 2021 Hindutva neoliberalism in India is a specific variant of capitalism that enforces economic and political oligarchy in the name of ethnic and majoritarian nationalism. It liberalizes the market for a few to establish a dominant corporate monopoly. It does not allow complete free-market competition as a
READ MOREIMPORTANCE OF MARITIME SECURITY FOR PAKISTAN IN THE WAKE OF US-INDIA ENGAGEMENT IN INDIAN OCEAN0
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- January 15, 2021
by Shakir Ali 15 January 2021 Abstract: In ancient times, the maritime domain was considered a sense of security by littorals, besides comprising excess of mineral resources. It also provided them an opportunity to focus on tangible and non-tangible threats emanating from the land. With the availability of technology and advancement in seafaring, the
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India denies dialogue on border issue after Nepal’s foreign minister arrived New Delhi0
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- January 15, 2021
by Hari Prasad Shrestha 15 January 2021 India once again behaved Nepal in a dominating way by refusing to talk on border disputes and acceptance of Eminent Persons Group (EPG) at the last moment after only arrival of Nepal foreign minister to India. Nepal had published a list of agendas, including border issues, for
READ MORECHINA’S DAM OVER THE BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER: A CASE OF FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF CUSTOMARY OBLIGATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS0
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- January 15, 2021
by Tejas Sateesha Hinder 15 Janaury 2021 Introductory Remarks Along the Brahmaputra River, which passes through areas of Asia that have been vulnerable to territorial war, China and India are vying for capital. South Asia has insufficient water. A cause of significant conflict between India and China is mass dam-building
READ MOREBangladesh: Escape to the supposed safe land couldn’t end Rohingya sufferings; it only reduced them a little0
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- January 14, 2021
Bhasan Char, Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh by Bahauddin Foizee 14 January 2021 The horrible scenes of hungry, tired, and almost lifeless Rohingya refugees entering Bangladesh shocked the world in 2017. Many Rohingyas are attempting to make the journey from Myanmar to Bangladesh, believing that a foreign land (Bangladesh) would be safer than their
READ MORESri Lanka: Nation, Not Nationalists, Decide0
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- January 14, 2021
N. Sathiya Moorthy Ceylon Today, 15 December 2020 In a recent debate in Parliament, State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal joined issue with the Opposition over fiscal management between the two Rajapaksa regimes, the incumbent and the previous one (2005-15) and the intervening Government of National Unity (GNU), where ‘unity’ too was in great deficit. As the
READ MOREIndia’s Sprouting Counterforce Posture0
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- January 14, 2021
By Amber Afreen Abid 14 January 2021 In recent years, India’s technological advancements in the domain of counterforce military capabilities have increased the vulnerability of the South Asian region. While trying to disturb the strategic stability in South Asia, India, through its adventuresome counterforce posture against Pakistan, is on the verge of becoming a rogue
READ MOREThe interface of Nuclear Deterrence with Emerging Security Concerns for Pakistan0
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- January 14, 2021
By Ahyousha Khan 14 January 2021 Nuclear deterrence refers to a situation in which one state presents its adversary with a threat (overt or covert) of using nuclear weapons to discourage the adversary from taking any aggressive action that otherwise, the adversary would consider taking. The term nuclear deterrence was widely understood and used
READ MORENepal: DEVELOPMENT AT THE COST OF DISPLACEMENT: THE NIJGADH AIRPORT CONUNDRUM0
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- January 13, 2021
by Apekshya Poudel 13 January 2021 With the new airport construction in Nijgadh, almost around one thousand four hundred houses must be displaced. Consequently, project Fast Track, an ambitious roadway construction of 76.2 km leading towards the Nijgadh Airport, has forced the people of Kokhana to resettle.[i] Nepal has been the first one to
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