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Gandhi profited from the collaboration with the British

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Almost two centuries of the British colonial rule is a fact of our history. An alien power can resort to two tactics to strengthen its hold over the conquered people: it can either resort to coercion by brutal use of superior force or can resort to persuasive means to co-opt the natives in the process [...]

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India-Bhutan tense relations

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that the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is now believed to have eight camps inside the kingdom with a total of 1,560 cadres. The National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB), another banned Northeast Indian separatist organization, they added, has 740 cadres spread over another eight camps. And, finally, the Kamatapur Liberation Organization (KLO) [...]

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China deploys S-300 in Tibe

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China deploys S-300 SAM system in Tibet The PLA Air Force (PLAAF)’s Surface-to-Air Missile Corps has been operating the S-300 (NATO reporting name: SA-10 Grumble) family of surface-to-air missile (SAM) system developed by Russian Almaz Central Design Bureau since the mid-1990s. The S-300 missile system was regarded as one of the world’s most effective all-altitude [...]

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The perfect storm gathering over India

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So, Shashi Tharoor has gone. Lalit Modi may follow. Or not. Cricket’s great jamboree may be cleaned up. Or not. Does it matter so much? The Indian Premier League (IPL) brouhaha could not have come at a worse time. India was, finally, if reluctantly, starting to focus on long-festering-but-urgent issues that prevent this country from [...]

The perfect storm gathering over India

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New India is nothing but a banana republic

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At 800 million, India is the world’s poorest nation. It’s the poorest nation ever in human history. The number of people trapped in poverty and bondage in this country is double the population of Africa. It’s more than the combined population of North and South Americas. But who cares. New India needs its daily fix of IPL

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Why talk to India?

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Although India, the largest of eight SAARC nations, is at odds with almost every other member on one bilateral matter or the other, it is with Pakistan, the second largest and nuclear-armed as India, that it has disputes having far-reaching implications. Heading the list is Kashmir, that has lately given birth to a serious contention about the flow of water into Pakistan, and that is why it has all along been called “the core issue”. India’s forcible occupation of the state, later the shameless reneging on commitments it had made at the UN and to the people of Kashmir to give them the right to decide about their future, and when there was an indigenous uprising trying to subdue it brutally – the entire attitude is a negation of democratic pretensions of India and a slap on the face of those who call it the largest democracy as well as a crying call against the human rights violations of Kashmiris. Equally crucial to Pakistan is New Delhi’s insidious design to starve our thriving agriculture of water by diverting its normal flow, in blatant violation of the Indus Waters Treaty.

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Dark Ages: Missing 1000 years

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One Thousand Years of Missing History Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani* Table of contents 1. Illuminating words 2. Academic voices 3. The Dark Ages revisited 4. Instances of creative contributions 5. Notes and references Note of the editor The following article is a newly edited and augmented version of an essay presented first by Professor [...]

Dark Ages: Missing 1000 years

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Ibn Khaldun and Adam Smith

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Ibn Khaldun and the Rise and Fall of Empires by Caroline Stone The 14th-century historiographer and historian Abu Zayd ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun was a brilliant scholar and thinker now viewed as a founder of modern historiography, sociology and economics. Living in one of human kind’s most turbulent centuries, he observed at first hand, or [...]

Ibn Khaldun and Adam Smith

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Did Blair sell Lockerbie bomber for £325 million

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Some pundits say the revelation casts doubt on the motivation behind the British government’s decision to release Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, who was allegedly behind the Lockerbie bombing of 1988.

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America's secret space weapon

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGuy_rZGrzE&feature=player_embedded] It sounds like the stuff of science fiction – ray guns, lasers and death rays from outer space – but it is not. It is real. On April 22nd, the United States Air Force launched a secret earth-orbiting vehicle intended for military purposes. But the details and mission are, of course, classified as top [...]

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