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In December last year, Pakistan and India had pledged to uphold the 2003 LoC ceasefire accord which had been left in tatters by repeated violations that year. The truce breaches had put the nascent bilateral peace dialogue on hold. The…
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A cartoon in New York Times depicting the Elite  Space Club chamber with its members inside and a poor Dhoti clad Indian holding a sickly cow knocking to seek entry, is in 'bad taste' to say the least. It was criticised for overlooking the…
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 K. G Suresh  With the announcement of the elections to the Haryana and Maharashtra Assemblies, the media, particularly the television channels and the professional seminarists, are projecting them as another 'test' for Prime Minister…
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Despite all hostilities India has never refused to talk to Pakistan and the passing of a resolution by the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council, urging the Centre to resume talks with Pakistan recently presents two extreme views of the…
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If Mangalyaan reported life in that planet, the separatists from Kashmir on ISI pay rolls will insist on raking up the Kashmir issue with the government at Mars. Pakistan has faced many rebuffs but does not desist from digging graves on the…
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 Kalyani Shankar The election season is picking up with four politically important states going to the polls in the next couple of months. These are the first major elections since the Lok Sabha poll where the BJP-led NDA was voted to…
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The unfortunate unprecedented floods have caused enormous damage to life in Jammu and Kashmir. Water level though receding in Valley will need enormous efforts to put life back in gear.  Immediate follow up to such water logged conditions…
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Vinayshil Gautam The quality of public discourse has been steadily declining and needs to be arrested. The quality of enquiry, the quality of interrogation, interpretation of the data which normally precedes discussion, is poor. One is not…
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The Sikhs, a minority community in Pakistan, are victims of recent communal attacks. Numbering a minuscule in strength the community, consisting mostly of traders are a threatened segment. They are planning to stage a country-wide agitation…
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 Kalyani Shankar Prime Minister Narendra Modi's honeymoon with the public continues even as he completes 100 days in office. There are mixed reports about his performance, as the Opposition is looking for loopholes, but his supporters…
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