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Indian 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
- Commentary, Featured
- 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, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, 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
READ MORECovid-19 and Competition for Influence in South Asia0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- May 6, 2020
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attends a special summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on COVID-19 via video link in Beijing on April 14. XINHUA/GAO JIE VIA GETTY IMAGES by Nilanthi Samaranayake 6 May 2020 Nilanthi Samaranayake (CNA) explains why assistance to the smaller South Asian countries will be important for showing U.S. interest in
READ MOREIndia attracted the world once. But it wasn’t because of its ambition to be a Hindu Rashtra0
- Commentary, Featured
- May 1, 2020
Aparna Pande May 1, 2020 India’s image has taken a battering in the last few months, not only in the United States and elsewhere in the West, but even in its own neighbourhood. Many friends and admirers of India are worried that the idea of India they have supported since the country’s Independence is changing and, in their view, not for
READ MORE‘The Pandemic Is A Portal’ — Arundhati Roy0
- Commentary, Featured
- April 25, 2020
Arundhati Roy 5 April 2020 Financial Times Who can use the term “gone viral” now without shuddering a little? Who can look at anything any more — a door handle, a cardboard carton, a bag of vegetables — without imagining it swarming with those unseeable, undead, unliving blobs dotted with suction pads waiting to fasten
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Weather and Epidemics: A strange early summer in India0
- Commentary, Featured
- April 16, 2020
Biswanath Dash, Ph.D. and Md. Shahid Akhter 16 April 2020 Introduction The relation between weather and disease is known since ancient times. Greek physician Hippocrates’s concept of ‘Epidemics’ described spread of disease through a population in a season. In his work around 380 BCE, he linked spread of the disease to human constitution and its
READ MORE‘Sayonara’ Afghanistan? A Distant Goodbye0
- Commentary, Featured
- April 15, 2020
By Adnan Qaiser 15 April 2020 In this first paper among a five-part discussion series on Afghanistan, Adnan Qaiser, with a distinguished career in the armed forces and international diplomacy, examines why there is more than what meets the eye in the peace-deal signed between the U.S. and the Taliban on 29 February 2020 You
READ MORETabligh, Religion, and Corona4
- Commentary, Featured
- April 4, 2020
by Asif Ibrahim 4 April 2020 Tabligh men organised a congregation of 250,000 participants near Lahore in Pakistan on March 11, despite the request of the Pak authorities to postpone or cancel it. And they gifted the perils of Corona virus, and deaths to whole of the Muslim world from Gaza to Malaysia. They have
READ MOREUnited Nations interagency Covid-19 memo: Without interventions, “upto 2 million” people may die in Bangladesh0
Leaked UN interagency memo led by WHO predicts “complete saturation” of the health system early in the Covid-19 epidemic and “rampant” exposure of healthcare workers in Bangladesh. Netra News March 28, 2020 According to a leaked interagency United Nations (UN) memo, the Covid-19 epidemic could result in “between half a million [to] 2 million” deaths
READ MOREModi’s cancelled visit: Coronavirus saves the blushes for Delhi, Dhaka0
The moment of relief for both sides, as it were, stems from the unstated, but nevertheless evident situation whereby Modi could have faced hostile protests in Dhaka that the Hasina regime was preparing meticulously to avoid, writes Mahendra Ved for South Asia Monitor By Mahendra Ved Mar 12, 2020 There are times when a calamity
READ MOREAs the Afghan peace process gets underway, reality eclipses magic0
- Commentary, Featured
- March 13, 2020
by William Milam March 13, 2020 Two weeks ago, as we awaited the signing of the US-Taliban Agreement which intends to ignite a peace process in Afghanistan, I wrote of the magic realism in general of US foreign policy and specifically in the agreement about to be signed. The agreement was signed on February 29
READ MOREBangladesh: Crackdown on Critics, Activists – HRW0
Bangladesh Dangerous Clampdown on Freedoms in Rohingya Refugee Camps Events of 2019 Languages Bengali English Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League government ignored calls during the year for an independent investigation into serious allegations of electoral fraud after the December 2018 national elections. Impunity for abuses by security forces, including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, remained pervasive.
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