Siddharth SrivastavaIt is one year since US President George W Bush visited India. To mark the occasion, a high-powered US business group is in India to take forward what will be a major milestone of Bush’s t
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Marwaan Macan-MarkarAt 17 she was in Geneva, not as a tourist but as an invitee speaker at the annual sessions of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. In 2005, aged 24, she had a celebrated hour-long
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Joan M. DawsonDefining Women:This time last year, police charged a peaceful assembly of women’s rights activists in Iran and beat hundreds of women and men. They did so again this year. Police have also marre
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Mhaphüvi NaleoWhat is meant by liberation? It simply means ‘being free’- having a right or privilege. From the Biblical perspective, it is deliverance or redemption from any barriers that hinder one’s re
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Rev. Dr. Wati AierToday, more than ever, the contradiction between violence and division on the one hand and the Good News of reconciliation and love on the other is pronounced in official ecclesiastical statem
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Najum MustaqStung by a spree of suicide attacks, Pakistan’s military junta this week had to take in an unannounced guest bearing ill tidings. The United States wants General Musharraf to do more to crush al-Q
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Najum MustaqNepal’s mainstream politicians understand both how to fight an autocratic king and how to negotiate with insurgents. But they sure do not know how to deal with agitations for rights by historicall
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Surendra MohanFor outside observers, the picture currently emerging from Nepal seems rather depressing: the continuing ill-health of 85-year-old Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala; the reluctance of the Nepal
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Devinder SharmaFarmers in United States, Europe and for that matter in other rich and industrialised countries are quitting agriculture. That makes me wonder. Why? After all, they get huge subsidies. They have
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Chris Carlson Fidel Castro is a hard core revolutionary, and what he said recently about the hanging of Saddam Hussein was pretty indicative of that. At eighty years old, gravely ill, and possibly on his
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Mneesha Gellman and Josh DankoffChher Cheng is the only female to sit as a Commune Councilor in her Cambodian village. Elected in 2002, Cheng ran in the first wave of local elections heralded by decentralizatio
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Vijayan MJWhat is bigger, a dam or the Prime Minister’s integrity? You can’t help asking this question when you find the nation’s most prestigious institutions lying to its people, proving right the Marxi
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Nitin SethiThe power sector gathered in an opulently polished banquet hall of a hotel in Delhi on December 16. The Arunachal government had invited them to ponder how to push for hydroelectric power generation.
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Ashish KothariOver a hundred years back, advancing British troops found themselves facing a determined warrior tribe in the highlands of Nagaland. The Angami men of Khonoma, famed for their prowess and strategi
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Xavier P Mao21st century is known as the century of Dialogue and Negotiation. Therefore, I propose a dialogue among all the Four Naga factions namely the 2-NNC and the 2-NSCN to be mediated by two representativ
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Uri AvneryMust a Native-American recognize the right of the United States of America to exist?Interesting question. The USA was established by Europeans who invaded a continent that did not belong to them, erad
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Ram PuniyaniCurrent times are witnessing violence of severe nature all around in which religion is projected one of the reasons. It is also projected as a clash between people of two religions and that people b
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Nicola NasserThe Israeli arrogance of being the regional military super power, unequivocally backed by the U.S. world super power, is dictating a kind of politics that deals trivially with the national and reli
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Vidya Bhushan RawatBJP’s manifesto for Uttarakhand reflects the bankruptcy of its ideology. That Sanskrit will be the state language and the government would pass anti conversion laws shows that BJP has not l
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Smita PoudelIn orthodox Hindu societies women usually wear the sari or the salwar kameej, which is generally regarded as respectable. In conservative Hindu cultures a woman seen wearing pants or a T-shirt inste
