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Claude Arpi  While speaking at a garden party at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth said that certain Chinese officials had been 'very rude' during Chinese President Xi Jinping's State visit to the UK in October 2015; it was supposed to…
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  M. M Khajooria    Ever since the Pak game plan to ignite communal fires in Jammu region through well planned communal conflict in Kishtwar failed to take off, the conspirators in Islamabad shifted the focus on the Hindu-dominated areas…
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Hiranmay Karlekar  Joseph Stiglitz says in Globalization and its Discontents, "I have written this book because when I was at the World Bank, I saw firsthand the devastating effect that globalisation can have on the developing countries,…
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Gautam Mukherjee Advocates and cat's paws of change are trying it on social media, virally growing in importance in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a major presence on it, directly tweeting his observations, without distorting…
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Aakar Patel On January 3, 2014, Deccan Herald reported an interesting story under the headline: "Modi will be a disaster for India: PM" In what was to be his last press conference as prime minister, Manmohan Singh said: "Without discussing…
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Dr Abhishek Chowhan “A 19 year old boy from an upper middle class family started using alcohol and cannabis when he was 14 years of age to conform to the peer groups. Initial experiments during social gatherings rapidly developed into…
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Ashok K Mehta  Last week two back-to-back book discussions on war and hard power passed off routinely when they ought to have attracted higher political and public interest and attention: After all, it is never too late to review past…
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  Dr.Banarsi Lal, Dr.Shahid Ahamad Technology development has a critical impact on many aspects of hilly areas development, especially the way we choose it, the way we design it and the way we deliver it to the masses. Technology should be…
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Anirban Ganguly  In a short life of 52 years, Syama Prasad Mookerjee strode many worlds and in each left his indelible and inimitable imprint. By the time he died on June 23, 1953 - a lonely and unattended death in detention in Srinagar -…
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Ashok K Mehta  Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was conspicuous by his absence from the Government's two-year achievement mega event at India Gate last month. He has scored high in intent, but relatively low on implementation without…
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