September 2009

• Latest Moves by Islamabad and Beijing
  26 September 2009, by SC
  Recent developments in Pakistan relating to Hafiz Saeed, the founder-leader of Jamat-ud-Dawa-cum-Lashkar-e-Taiba, have been cautiously welcomed by India.
  On September 16, the police in Pakistan’s Punjab province registered two cases against  (...)
• At Random
  26 September 2009, by K. Natwar Singh
  The last two weeks have provided both mirth and melancholy. First melancholy. The aged and respected Minister of External Affairs, S.M. Krishna, and his junior colleague are unceremoniously asked to vacate their five-star abodes. That they were  (...)
• BJP etc.: The Death of Ideology
  26 September 2009, by T J S George
  Power is the sole purpose of politics in India. Without power, parties crumble. The implosion ripping the BJP apart shows how comprehensive the crumbling can be. It is easy to say that the BJP’s self-destruct is its internal affair. But there are  (...)
• Pokhran-II Thermo-Nuclear Test: A Failure
  26 September 2009, by Ashok Parthasarathi, K. Santhanam
  The following is an enlarged version of an article that appeared in The Hindu (September 17, 2009). It is being reproduced here, with due acknowledgement to The Hindu, in view of the exceptional significance of the contents of the article and  (...)
• Military Balance and Partition
  26 September 2009, by P.K. Nigam
  A small number of Englishmen (about two lacs) ruled India, a vast country with a population of 400 million. How could they do it? Their strategy was military control and creation of vested interests bound up with British rule. The princes and  (...)
• Obama Drops a Missile Bombshell
  26 September 2009, by M K Bhadrakumar
  With his eight-month presidency seemingly weakening, United States President Barack Obama struck. A familiar pattern in his political career is repeating. His decision on September 10 to scrap the plans of his predecessor, George W. Bush, to  (...)
• Hotting up with China?
  26 September 2009, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Once again China has appeared on the radar screen of Indian security. Although officially the Indian authorities have so far denied any knowledge of Chinese troop concentration all along the far-flung frontier, the fact that for over two weeks  (...)
• Chinese Soldiers on Indian Borders
  26 September 2009, by Harish Chandola
  The media these days are full of stories of the Chinese Army’s violation of India’s northern borders. Of late it spoke of violation in the central sector. I live in a border town in this sector. Before one believes these stories of violations, one  (...)
• China and Xinjiang
  26 September 2009, by Shankari Sundararaman
  As China approaches the 60th anniversary of Communist rule, the issues that have challenged its internal consolidation are once again taking centrestage. While the country has been showing remarkable economic progress and has also taken on a  (...)
• How to Minimise Displacement through Alternative Patterns of Development
  26 September 2009, by Bharat Dogra
  Displacement has become a leading source of discontent and impoverishment in India and many other developing countries. In the case of some vulnerable groups like tribals, it is perhaps the leading source of poverty and discontent resulting in  (...)

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