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Neighbours challenge political Hindutva’s Ram agenda0
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- July 25, 2020
N Sathiya Moorthy 24 July 2020 Indian claims to the Ram story and ownership could be challenged from more places than one, says N Sathiya Moorthy. Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s recent diatribe that the birthplace of Hindu god Ram is located in his country and not in Ayodhya, need not be a
READ MOREThe Top Brass is Shattered in Bangladesh: Aftermath of a Retired General’s Interview0
- Commentary, Featured
- July 20, 2020
Lieutenant General (retired) Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardy (left) and General Aziz Ahmed, the Chief of Army Staff (right) by Taj Hashmi 20 July 2020 Although neither the puppet and illegitimate government of Sheikh Hasina nor the pro-Indian Deep State, which has been running Bangladesh for the last twelve years, gathered enough courage to broadcast
READ MOREHasina’s Gambit Backfires: Isn’t Bangladesh Today a Battlefield of Sino-Indian Proxy War?0
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- July 18, 2020
by Taj Hashmi 18 July 2020 Bangladesh since its birth has gone through too many intra-military and intra-civilian conflicts to mention in one breath. As on 14th July, Bangladeshi Lt General (ret) Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardy revealed in a bold and candid video interview from Dhaka with Kanak Sarwar, a Bangladeshi American journalist in
READ MOREThe Kashmir Imbroglio: An ever bleeding legacy of a long chain of betrayals by the Centre0
- Commentary, Featured
- July 7, 2020
by Prof M A Sofi 7 July 2020 The theme that I broach in this write-up revolves around my strong and long-held belief and shared across the board in Kashmir that ‘without recourse to the long regime of games played by various governments at the Centre through these past seventy years, Kashmir would have been
READ MORECelebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 85th Birthday: a gardener for mankind0
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- July 5, 2020
by Ugyen Gyalpo 6 July 2020 This 6th of July will mark the 85th birth anniversary of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. At a young age back in 1959, when the Chinese armies crushed the Tibetan uprising, the young Dalai Lama along with fleeing his homeland also had to shoulder the mantle
READ MORENot Only in Ladakh, India Losing Ground in Bangladesh Too77
- Commentary, Featured
- June 18, 2020
by Taj Hashmi 18 June 2020 We know things are not going well in regards to India’s relationship with China. On 5th/6th May, China captured around sixty square kilometre of Indian territory in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, which is strategically important to all the three countries in the region, China, India, and Pakistan. On 14th/15th
READ MOREFear of the unknown: Hysteria in Bangladesh3
- Commentary, Featured
- June 17, 2020
by Ajmal Sobhan 17 June 2020 When Minhaz Khan passed away three weeks back in Dhaka, he had been terminally ill for a few years. With advanced Parkinson’s disease, he had been living under the care of a live-in nurse in his own home. He was dependent on the nurse for feeding, bodily functions, and
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Bangladesh: An Open Letter to Foreign Minister Abdul Momen13
- Commentary, Featured
- June 6, 2020
by Taj Hashmi 6 June 2020 Dear Dr. Momen: I write this to draw your attention to your recent interview with an Indian weekly The Week , published on May 31, 2020, which all of our common friends and other Bangladeshis at home and abroad have found very gratuitous, objectionable, as it grossly undermines truth,
READ MORESecurity Threats in South Asia: China’s Revised Assessment: Part one2
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- June 1, 2020
by Mian Hameed 1 June 2020 Wisdom in my younger life was an unknown entity to me. In due course, I was able to fine-tune a process to gain wisdom. Though I am of no consequence here, the wisdom of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has implications for India. Here, I will not
READ MORERELIGIOUS FREEDOM- WOBBLY INDIA AND PAKISTAN’s RENASCENCE2
- Commentary, Featured
- May 27, 2020
By: Barrister Pirzada Aurang Zaib 27 May 2020 ‘You are free to go to your temples; you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of
READ MOREIndian Navy benefits from Pentagon paranoia over China1
US government in a hurry to get new sub-hunting helicopters into the hands of the Indian Navy by Dave Makichuk May 20, 2020 To say the Pentagon is concerned about China’s military expansion would be an understatement — just ask the Indian Navy. According to a report by Paul McLeary for Breaking Defense, the US
READ MOREDispute between Nepal and India Worsen over Territory of Kalapani1
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- May 23, 2020
by Hari Prasad Shrestha 23 May 2020 In his address to the House of Representatives, Prime Minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli, in response to the opposition lawmakers’ queries about the government’s annual policy and program, he remembered the motto of India’s state emblem, “Satyameva Jayate” (“Only truth triumphs”), and the four-head lion figure of
READ MOREWhich countries helped the Sri Lankan government in the Sri Lankan civilian war 2009?0
Mahamtan Vijaykumar 23 January 2020 Well, let’s see… India The Indian government’s support for Tamil Eelam died with Indira Gandhi. While the IPKF disaster and Rajiv Gandhi assassination killed any shattered remnants of sympathy the Indian government may have had with Eelam Tamils. The Indian government was just as big of an enemy to the
READ MOREAn Era of Darkness: Book Review0
- Commentary, Featured, Reviews
- May 10, 2020
by Akmal Hossain 10 May 2020 British, sometimes many writers pronounce it ‘Brutish’ rules in India- today the combination of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, nearly for two hundred years. British East India Company that came here for trading in Indian goods transformed into a ruling class by a tricky conspiracy and bribery. This book exposes
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