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The Games They Play in Burma
Friday, 8 August 2008, 4:58 pm | J. Sri Raman
On August 8, a small team of six athletes from Burma is scheduled to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. Very few back home, however, may be wondering on this occasion about the team's fortunes in the field, track, ... More >>
The Larger Toll of India's Terror Blasts
Monday, 4 August 2008, 11:44 am | J. Sri Raman
Terror and tragedy have revisited parts of Ahmedabad, capital of India's state of Gujarat, which have yet to forget the fascist violence witnessed in the early months of 2002. More >>
Another "Bipartisan" Victory for Bush-Singh Deal
Friday, 25 July 2008, 2:43 pm | J. Sri Raman
Very few found the victory of India's government in a confidence vote in the country's parliament on Tuesday evening anything like startling news. The margin of victory, however, turned out to be much wider than many had expected. This created a tailor-made ... More >>
South Asia Awaits Another Secret War
Sunday, 20 July 2008, 6:31 pm | J. Sri Raman
The Kabul blast of July 7, which targeted India's embassy and took a heavy toll of human lives, may trigger yet another secret South Asian war. More >>
A Raw Deal for India
Sunday, 13 July 2008, 2:58 pm | J. Sri Raman
On June 19, 2005, a Washington report in USA Today said: "More than 26 years after a near-meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, the Senate is considering an energy bill that includes financial incentives for construction of nuclear plants. ... More >>
J. Sri Raman: Blasts That Shake South Asia
Sunday, 13 July 2008, 2:36 pm | J. Sri Raman
Terror strikes anywhere and everywhere have larger targets than lives and limbs. This is even more so in the case of bomb blasts carrying the terror tag in the South Asian triangle of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Every blast here does not stop ... More >>
J. Sri Raman: The Deal That Derails
Tuesday, 1 July 2008, 12:28 am | J. Sri Raman
George W. Bush may have run into rough weather acting on his doctrine of "regime change" effected through the unsubtle devices of aggression and occupation. He may succeed, however, in India, through a nuclear deal. Or, to put it more correctly, ... More >>
J. Sri Raman: India's Obama Issues
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 3:24 pm | J. Sri Raman
How does India look at Barack Obama? The question - as well as any answer to it - is crucially related to major foreign policy issues that the Democratic candidate for the US presidency will have to face as he continues his campaign, and even more ... More >>
Bush Army in Brzezinski's Afghan Trap
Sunday, 22 June 2008, 4:03 pm | J. Sri Raman
"That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap ... The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the Soviet ... More >>
J. Sri Raman: Partnership in Pious Hypocrisy
Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 6:59 pm | J. Sri Raman
We have been hearing so much about a US-India "strategic partnership." This, of course, led to the drive for a pact on nuclear cooperation with the mooting of a "deal" between countries billed as the world's "greatest and largest democracies." ... More >>
Dislodging Defeated Dictators
Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 12:07 am | J. Sri Raman
Celebrations continue in two South Asian countries, which have just witnessed the defeat of dictatorships. The war for democracy, however, is yet to be fully and finally won in Nepal and Pakistan. More >>
Tensions in India Endanger Pakistan's Experiment
Saturday, 17 May 2008, 10:55 am | J. Sri Raman
A 12-hour encounter between a group of militants and security forces left eight persons dead in the Samba sector of the India-administered State of Jammu and Kashmir on May 11. Earlier, heavy firing across the India-Pakistan Line of Control had been ... More >>
India's Nuclear Anniversary
Sunday, 11 May 2008, 1:55 pm | J. Sri Raman
May 11 will mark the tenth anniversary of an event that represented a turning point in the history of modern India. On that date in 1998, the largest South Asian state turned away from a long-pursued path that had taken it to a place of pride in the ... More >>
Undo Nepal's Polls: India's Hawks
Saturday, 3 May 2008, 6:19 pm | J. Sri Raman
Nepal has belied prophecies of a post-election upheaval. All sections of the Himalayan nation and its political spectrum would appear to have accepted the Maoist victory in the polls to the Constituent Assembly (CA). None has rejected the results - not ... More >>
J. Sri Raman: Referendum and Resistance
Monday, 28 April 2008, 11:02 am | J. Sri Raman
It is a bestseller, but barely popular with its readers. The 194-page volume, which hit the bookstands in Burma on April 24, was the long-awaited draft constitution authored by the country's military junta, without consulting most of its people. ... More >>
J. Sri Raman: New Test for Nepal
Monday, 7 April 2008, 1:12 pm | J. Sri Raman
In less than a week, Nepal is scheduled to vote and elect a Constituent Assembly (CA). As the Himalayan nation's first major step toward a new constitution, which will lay the foundation of a new democracy, the event slated for April 10 warrants ... More >>
J. Sri Raman: Pakistan's Anti-Terror Priority
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 4:16 pm | J. Sri Raman
The first of the issues likely to pose a serious, if not formidable, challenge to Pakistan's incoming government involves two of the three A's associated with the country: Army and America. The coalition regime, expected to be in place soon, may ... More >>
Where Democracy Does Not Suit New Delhi
Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 9:27 am | J. Sri Raman
Guess the place from where President Pervez Musharraf, or General (Retired) Musharraf as jeering opponents refer to him these days, has received unexpected support against Pakistan's pro-democracy struggle? Answer: New Delhi, capital of the neighbor often ... More >>
Names in India's Far-Right Games
Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 12:24 am | J. Sri Raman
Names, as our mentors taught us all in the media, make news. What kind of news does Lal Krishna Advani make when India's far right names him as its candidate for the office of prime minister? More >>
Passing the Baton to Democracy?
Monday, 3 December 2007, 11:52 am | J. Sri Raman
Will Pervez Musharraf make history? Or will his latest moves merely mark a repetition of history? That is the all-important question before the 160 million people of Pakistan. More >>
