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Indian-American Hindutva believers are ecstatic about India’s court decision on Babri Masjid0
By Bhargavi Kulkarni and Suman Guha Mozumder Nov 12, 2019 The Nov. 9 verdict of the Supreme Court that granted Hindus permission to build a Ram temple at the centuries-old Ayodhya holy site, ending one of the country’s most politically-charged land disputes, has evoked a mixed reaction from Indian-Americans. The Hindu-American community and those supporting
READ MOREIndia’s Narendra Modi has had a free pass from the west for too long0
Threats to minority rights and democratic norms are ignored to preserve a comforting illusion Gideon Rachman November 11 2019 The Financial Times The world’s democracies are desperate to believe in India. From Washington to Tokyo, and from Canberra to London, the country is viewed as an indispensable counterbalance to China. The two Asian giants are
READ MOREGowher Rizvi’s 1976 Article, “The Killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – Perspectives on Recent Bangladesh History”: A Review*1
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- November 4, 2019
By Taj Hashmi 3 November 2019 Gowher Rizvi, the author of the article, “The Killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – Perspectives on Recent Bangladesh History” This is a review of an academic article by Ali Gowher (aka Gowher Rizvi), who is the current International Affairs Adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh. The article
READ MOREManipur Government in Exile: Impact on Bangladesh4
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- November 3, 2019
By R Chowdhury 3 November 2019 A dissident group of the Indian Manipur State has announced formation of a Government-in-Exile in London on October 29, 2019. Yamben Biren, who designated himself the Chief Minister and Minister of External Affairs of Manipur made the declaration. Mr. Narengbam Samarjit, the Defence Minister designate, was present. They claimed
READ MORERSS IDEOLOGUE NANA DESHMUKH WHO JUSTIFIED 1984 SIKH MASSACRE IS A ‘BHARAT RATNA’ NOW0
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- November 1, 2019
inssan abhee tak zinda hae, zinda hone per sharminda hae! Human beings are still alive, they are ashamed to be alive! [Shahid Nadeem’s Urdu couplet on silence of civil society against communal violence. He received forty lashes for writing and singing these lines by Zia regime in Pakistan] by Shamsul Islam 1 November 2019 In
READ MOREBangladesh: National Revolution and Solidarity Day, its Significance and its Precursor (With inside stories)0
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- October 31, 2019
By R Chowdhury 1 November 2019 November 7, 1975. A unique day in the life of Bangladesh. At the early hours on this day, soldiers in the Dhaka Cantonment came out in force against the conspiratorial putsch staged by Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf’ four days earlier. Firing with whatever personal weapons they possessed in all directions,
READ MOREModi’s Victory, A Lesson for the Congress…? Book Review0
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- October 31, 2019
South Asia Journal 31 October 2019 When Mr. Narendra Modi first stepped into office as Prime Minister of India, Nilofar Suhrawardy came out with a book on him. The book, Image and Substance, Modi’s First Year in Office (2015), was first one on the subject. Her latest book on Modi’s return to power following a
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“We the
PeopleHindus of India…”?0- Commentary, Featured
- October 18, 2019
— A once-celebrated constitution is now in the danger zone Raju Rajagopal and Sunita Viswanath, Hindus for Human Rights, USA 18 October 2019 Barbara Jordan, the first African-American Congresswoman from the South, wryly reminded us during the Nixon impeachment hearings forty-five years ago that when the makers of our constitution wrote “We the people…”
READ MOREAfghanistan’s Silent Tragedy0
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- October 17, 2019
By Michael Kugelman October 17, 2019 Last week, the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan marked its 18-year anniversary. U.S. forces have now been fighting there for nearly two decades. Afghans, however, have experienced conflict for twice as long. Before U.S. troops arrived in October 2001, there was a period of Taliban rule, and that was preceded
READ MOREIndia and China must deepen their relations to sustain the vision of the Asian Century0
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- October 12, 2019
Dr. Manoj Kumar Mishra, 12 October 2019 While the second informal meeting between India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping takes place at Mamallapuram, in the Indian city of Chennai after the two leaders met last time in China’s Wuhan in April last year, some attempts need to be considered in order
READ MOREAbrar Fahad killing: Bangladesh student was beaten for four hours0
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- October 10, 2019
9 October 2019 BBC Bangladesh student protests A Bangladeshi undergraduate student killed in his dormitory on Sunday days after criticising the government online was beaten for several hours before he died, witnesses told the BBC. Fellow students say Abrar Fahad was taken from his room around 20:00 (14:00 GMT) and beaten at least four hours.
READ MOREIndia-Pak Nuclear War Would Kick Off Catastrophic Scenarios0
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- October 10, 2019
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali * 10 October 2019 IDN FREMONT, California, USA (IDN) – Amid rising tension over Kashmir between the two nuclear neighbors, India and Pakistan, a new U.S. study examines how such an hypothetical future nuclear conflict would have consequences that could ripple across the globe. [Read also New Study Warns of Devastating
READ MOREIndia’s migration politics will topple Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina0
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- October 10, 2019
OCTOBER 10, 2019 India’s migration politics–an assertion that there are 40 million Bangladeshi migrants illegally living in India and that they must be pushed back–will morph into an explosive crisis in South Asia and destabilise the region. This is how things will unravel: India’s looming campaign to round up suspected illegal migrants and put them
READ MOREHow a Bangladeshi Army Chief Duped the US1
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- September 25, 2019
September 25, 2019 B.Z. Khasru After Zia was mysteriously killed by some fellow army officers in Chittagong on May 30, 1981, the ambassador suspected that the military could take over the government. The danger of instability in the military was ripe because Ershad was not seen by his senior colleagues as the strongest military leader.
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