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September 29, 2005 |
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India & Iran: 'Look beyond energy needs'
'The potentially cataclysmic schism in the Muslim heartlands ought to be explored in terms of its implications for India on the energy and security front.'
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September 28, 2005 |
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'India was our friend'
'Iran enjoys friendly relations with India. Of course, we have complaints about their behaviour.'
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September 27, 2005 |
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Don't talk to terrorists!
'India must also desist from letting the Composite Dialogue turn into a Kashmir Dialogue, a situation that Pakistan, and possibly the US, might want to happen eventually.'
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September 26, 2005 |
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India: Of, by, and for NGOs
The government is living under two tyrannies: the Communist tyranny and the NGO tyranny.
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September 22, 2005 |
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Pakistan did it again
'Pakistan has mastered the art of waging an image battle and they seem to do it with such consummate ease, it isn't even funny.'
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September 15, 2005 |
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Analysis: Musharraf's new game plan
'By making it seem that India is not responding to his gestures, he hopes to get the US involved in the peace process.'
A Tale of Two Cities
'The Indian reaction to New Orleans is symptomatic of a nation that has gone from self-deprecation in the stagnant 60s and 70s to self-glorification in the roaring 00s.'
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September 14, 2005 |
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The US needs India!
'If the US does not wish to end up playing second fiddle in a global orchestra, it is very, very clear what she needs to do. And who she needs to do it with.'
Sarabjit or national interest?
'Should we allow the Sarabjit Singh Case to disrupt the peace process?'
Katrina: Watershed for Bush
The slow response to Katrina is primarily a federal failure, particularly of the department of homeland security, created by President Bush in his first term.
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September 05, 2005 |
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Why must PM talk to Hurriyat?
'It is hard to see how India is going to earn the gratitude of the power-brokers of the world when it talks to a marginalised Kashmiri set that play no part in calming the valley.'
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September 02, 2005 |
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India needs energy, and the US
'Unless India obtains/develops alternative sources of energy, it will have to import close to 90 per cent of its petroleum needs.'
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September 01, 2005 |
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E-mail disabled!
'Web-based ready access means in church, concert or cemetery, the restless mind can find its comfort in the gizmo in the pocket.'
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August 25, 2005 |
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Tackling terror's roots
'Extreme forms of violence is a manifestation of hate. And hate, like love, is all in the mind.'
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August 24, 2005 |
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India must declare AIDS a crisis
'We have the second-highest number of AIDS/HIV-affected people. And this is going up every year by half a million.'
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August 23, 2005 |
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Pakistan's war against women
'Musharraf can't claim Pakistan is a democracy, until he stops this war launched by his allies.'
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August 12, 2005 |
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Wanted: Some Hindu spine
'The thugs and bigots attacking Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan do not care for liberal sensibilities of human rights people in any country. They understand power and nothing else.'
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August 11, 2005 |
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'What do diplomats do?'
India has changed so much that new paradigms need to be internalised. But the craft of diplomacy remains the same.
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August 04, 2005 |
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UK blasts: the Iraq factor
'The lack of a truly even handed Western policy on the Middle East's fundamental problems; Afghanistan; Iraq and the threat to Iran all provide the driving force behind the upsurge of Islamic terrorism.'
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