Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Sujoy Dhar NEW DELHI, Apr 14, 2012 (IPS) – While India’s largest left outfit, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), was licking its electoral wounds, a newly-elected regime in West Bengal was busy chopping chapters on Marxism and the Bolshevik Revolution out of high school syllabi, in [...]
FUTURE OF KASHMIRI PANDITS
January 21, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN It is 23 years today since Jammu & Kashmir saw the beginning of the ethnic-cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), from their homeland at the instigation of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) by a group of Kashmiri jihadi elements trained, armed and motivated [...]
INDIA: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly
January 21, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By K.S. Harikrishnan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) – Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea. Rani [...]
INDIA: Industrial Pollution Brings Crocodile Tears
December 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Malini Shankar DANDELI, India, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) – Industrial pollution from a paper manufacturing factory in one of India’s most precious biodiversity hotspots is wreaking havoc on the local ecology, driving up the population of wild crocodiles in the area while simultaneously destroying the creatures’ habitat [...]
India Set to Take Lead on Abolishing Nukes
December 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN India’s Mani Shankar Aiyar with Global Security Institute’s Jonathan Granoff By Shastri Ramachandaran* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NEW DELHI (IDN) – The Government of India appears to be in right earnest about taking the lead in pursuing universal disarmament. The renewed vigour – for reviving the climate and conditions wherein [...]
India-US as Partners in Arms
November 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – The Obama Administration’s much touted "pivot" to Asia extends a trend that began with President Barack Obama and Mrs. Obama inviting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mrs. Singh to the US as the first state guests of the Obama [...]
MALEGAON: POLITICISATION & COMMUNALISATION OF INVESTIGATION
November 16, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The politicisation and communalisation of the investigation process since 2006 in terrorism-related cases has led to a paralysis of the investigation machinery in the States and the Government of India. 2. The result: Barring the 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai which were successfully investigated and prosecuted, our investigating agencies [...]
India’s Fragile Security Ten Years After 9/11 Attacks
September 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Neelam Deo and Akshay Mathur* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint MUMBAI (IDN) – On September 12, 2001, a day after 9/11, the Times of India published a story titled, ‘India hopes US will now pressurise Pak’. At the time, this relayed a common national sentiment – India may finally get [...]
MUMBAI: EROSION OF FAITH IN SECURITY
July 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN,Camp Vizag The Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh’s reported decision to visit Mumbai in the wake of the new series of orchestrated and timed explosions on July 13 reflects his embarrassment and concern over the blasts. 3.The embarrassment arises from the continuing deficiencies in our counter-terrorism capability even after the much [...]
