Ambrose MusiyiwaZimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe has been named as one of the 33 leading “predators of press freedom” in the world.“Whether presidents, ministers, chiefs of staff, religious leaders or
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Bertil Lintner Myanmar’s military government may have narrowly escaped United Nations Security Council sanction, but it is facing an unprecedented political challenge at home, not by the crippled opposit
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Dhruba AdhikarySeeing is believing. The maxim holds good when the situation around you is normal. What Nepal is facing today is anything but normal. This perhaps is the reason Nepalis are reluctant to believe i
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Joel S HirschhornWhat a wonderful political distraction is Senator Barack Hussein Obama. Perhaps a good part of his attractiveness is that he is in so many ways the complete opposite of George W. Bush.Yet, what
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Maloy Krishna DharThe latest ULFA carnage in Assam has been diagnosed by top leaders like quack doctors, broadcasting panic, and their diagnosis is wide off the mark.Ministers with foot-in-mouth disease rushed
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Chan AkyaOver the past few days, on a visit to India to improve economic ties, the message of UK Chancellor (and prime minister in waiting) Gordon Brown has been muddied by an unseemly media controversy over ap
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Michael Black Long known for its wheeling and dealing in heroin, methamphetamines and pirated video discs, Myanmar’s United Wa State Army (UWSA), the world’s largest armed narcotics-trafficking group,
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Girish MishraFor quite some time, serious doubts have been expressed about the continuance of the present era of globalization, based on the Washington Consensus or neo-liberalism. After John Ralston Saul’s w
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for
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Charles Villa-VicencioTruth-telling and the healing of South AfricaThe television image of Archbishop Desmond Tutu hugging his former critics and adversaries is a familiar one. Tears and the emotional trauma of
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Purnendra JainWith energy security appearing as a major concern on policy agendas of many Asian nations, both large and small, the option to go nuclear is gaining increasing support in many capitals. Power
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Chan Akya Mark Twain quipped that the lack of money is the root of all evil. Humans are irrational, but societies are rarely so, until they choose to become extinct. Understanding the economic factors unde
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Clifford McCoy Myanmar’s army is using the threat of starvation to force thousands of civilians out of the country’s eastern hills, where the government is pitched in a protracted battle against ethnic
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The Rajinder Sachar Committee’s report on the status of the Muslims of India holds greater relevance when it is officially acknowledged that the Muslims of India are lagging behind socially, economically as w
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Prof Amit BhaduriIt has become a cliché, even a politically correct cliché these days, to say that there are two Indias: the India that shines with its fancy apartments and houses in rich neighbourhoods, corp
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Praful BidwaiA month after President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan proposed a four-point formula to resolve the troubled question of Kashmir jointly with India, exploratory contacts between the two governments h
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Shylashri ShankarAre the courts of India straying into the executive and legislative folds?In 1993, political scientist Gerald Rosenberg published a book on the American court system titled The Hollow Hope: Can
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Shawn W Crispin Who is responsible for the coordinated bomb attacks that rocked Thailand’s capital on New Year’s Eve, resulting in at least three deaths, 38 injuries and sowing fear and chaos across th
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Arkotong LongkumerAt the end of the year, we usually write piecemeal columns about the year: updates, reviews, highlight various events that form an important part of this exercise. Which are the most str
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Robert FiskSaddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of
