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CAA-NPR-NRC Represent the Culmination of Golwalkar and RSS’s Vision0
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- January 23, 2020
A six-phase strategy of the Sangh explains many challenges that India is facing today, but also leaves troubling questions for the future. Dunu Roy 23 January 2020 2019 has turned into 2020, the young are out flooding the streets, undaunted by stun guns and lathis, and the messages they carry are powerful – doorstep kolams
Myanmar panel claims soldiers possibly committed war crimes, but not genocide, against Rohingyas0
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- January 22, 2020
scroll.in | Jan 21, 2020 The International Court of Justice is expected to rule on a genocide case against the country on Thursday. A Myanmar government-appointed panel on Monday established that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that members of the security forces were among “multiple actors” who committed possible war crimes against the Rohingya
Afghanistan’s Borderlands: Unruly, Unruled, and Central to Peace0
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- January 22, 2020
The Asia Foundation January 21, 2020 By Adrian Morel In Games without Rules, author and former Asia Foundation colleague Tamim Ansary argues that bringing rural Afghanistan under centralized rule has been the defining challenge of the Afghan state since the reign of Ahmad Shah Durrani in the 18th century. He debunks the colonial myth of
Iran’s State Media Distort Western News Coverage of Rare Khamenei Sermon0
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- January 21, 2020
Voice of America – English By Michael Lipin, Mehdi Jedinia January 18, 2020 Iranian state media have given a distorted view of Western news coverage of a rare public sermon by Iran’s supreme leader, ignoring how Western outlets highlighted perceived shortcomings in his responses to domestic problems. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led Friday prayers in Tehran
Sri Lanka diplomatic pendulum swinging back?0
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- January 20, 2020
New interest in India, while China for years has been widening its footprint with transport projects By AT Contributor, Colombo Sri Lanka and India vowed to strengthen military ties and widen maritime links with neighbors after security talks, the president’s office said Sunday, as China’s economic clout increases in the region. China, a long-time regional
Bangladeshi lawmakers want extrajudicial killings0
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- January 20, 2020
The demand by a few parliamentarians that the police be allowed to kill rapists without a trial has led to a furious debate By Faisal Mahmud, Dhaka 20 January 2020 Extra-judicial killing is not new in Bangladesh. What is new is a campaign by elected lawmakers in Parliament to legitimize killings by the police that
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BOMBING TO BALLOT: UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS FROM SOUTH ASIA0
- Commentary
- September 8, 2019
BY ASANGA ABEYAGOONASEKERA 8 September 2019 “Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.” – Atal Bihari Vajpayee Do terrorist bomb explosions and elections have a relationship? In South Asia, a region engulfed with a high level of terrorist activity, the record clearly shows that terrorists see the run-up to an
The cut-and-run strategy in Afghanistan0
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- September 6, 2019
The Taliban are ready to negotiate. The question is whether they are negotiating in good faith, writes William Milam by William Milam September 6, 2019 It is Monday, September 2, as I write this, the Labour Day holiday in the US. The equivalent holiday in most other countries is May Day, or International Workers Day,
Judicial System Of Mughal And British India0
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- September 6, 2019
By Dr. Rajkumar Singh 6 September 2019 The establishment of the Muslim rule in India opened a new chapter in its judicial history. The Muslim conquerors brought with them a new religion, a new civilization and a new social system. The ideal of justice under Islam was one of the highest in the middle ages. The
India: Goa Migration2
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- September 6, 2019
By Eduardo Faleiro 6 September 2019 Sometime ago, I visited several villages and towns in the neighbouring districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka to meet people of Goan origin settled there. During the 16th and 17th centuries thousands of Goans, both Hindus and Christians, left Goa to escape religious and cultural persecution. In Goa, during that
Counting to Segregate: Behind Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC)0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- September 6, 2019
On 31 August, India released the final iteration of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), a list of “genuine Indian citizens” that is being updated on order of the Supreme Court. The final version, which comes after two preliminary drafts published in 2017 and 2018, identified close to 1.9 million as “illegal immigrants”. The second
Sri Lanka: Why is no one talking about an ‘insolvent’ economy?0
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- September 5, 2019
N Sathiya Moorthy 3 September 2019 The irony of Sri Lanka in the second decade of the second millennium is that everyone can blame everyone else without having to acknowledge his own contribution or owning up his share of the blame. It extends from corruption, to lawlessness to democracy-threats and the elimination of ethnic Tamil
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With little leverage to impede Bangladesh’s authoritarianism, US policy towards the country will continue to be primarily transactional
With little leverage to impede Bangladesh’s authoritarianism, US policy towards the country will continue to be primarily transactional. Biden-Bangladesh: Back to square one William B Milam January 21, 2021 A picture of Joe Biden as Democratic candidate taken in February 2020. He was inaugurated as US President on January 20th 2021. Photo: Julien Kouame/Alamy When
Post-Trump World: Is Democracy Dying in America As Well?
by Taj Hashmi 22 January 2021 We know it’s fashionable to hypothesize that democracy is “dying” in the post-Cold War world. It’s true not only for some of the postcolonial democracies in the Third World and some “new democracies” Eastern Europe, but of late, seemingly, it’s also true about the United States. I
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