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India Watch: Beyond Defense Cooperation
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On Contemporary Indian Politics and Society. Wednesday, June 20, 2007. Early this week, Indian Foreign Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, was on a four-day Southeast Asian tour. The destinations were Indonesia and Singapore with the enhancement of defense, economic and trade cooperation on his agenda. Besides defense and trade, the meeting also discussed the possibility of cementing cooperation on Special Economic Zone, development of alternative energy, mutual legal assistance on crimes and extradition treaty,...
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India Watch: Learning from India’s experience
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On Contemporary Indian Politics and Society. Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Learning from India’s experience. At the same time, it is also important to note here that besides the immense progress achieved by India in the field of defense over the years India has also become an important market and partner for development ever since it opened its market in the late 1990s. Its thriving economy and democracy became a success story that development and democracy can go hand in hand. India's founding fathers have d...
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India Watch: Havana Meeting: A Potential Breakthrough?
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On Contemporary Indian Politics and Society. Tuesday, September 19, 2006. Havana Meeting: A Potential Breakthrough? Let’s take a closer look at the roller coaster history of the fruitful meetings between the leaders of the two nations in the past few years. Will this prove to be a breakthrough in Indo-Pak relations? Or will it turn out to be yet another instance of Pakistani one-upmanship vis-à-vis India? But to recall what Musharraf said in an interview. Blog by Mas Qisa'i at 12:09:00 AM. India, Washing...
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India Watch: The Meeting of Two Asian Giants: Part II
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On Contemporary Indian Politics and Society. Thursday, January 17, 2008. The Meeting of Two Asian Giants: Part II. Significant improvements have been achieved by the two sides since the signing of a wide range of strategy to improve their bilateral ties in commercial, political and strategic areas in New Delhi in 2006. But there are also points of concern related to the Indo China bilateral tie. Some points of concern, however, need to be elaborated here. Even though the two sides agreed to building ...
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India Watch: India should get a better deal
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On Contemporary Indian Politics and Society. Thursday, September 04, 2008. India should get a better deal. The failure to get the nod from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) in Vienna for the Indo-US nuclear agreement has not made India and the US governments worried that this historic deal will not go through. Too much has been at stake to see this deal at its present situation and there is still an opportunity to get the needed approval. The NSG consists of 45 countries which has great concern with redu...
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India Watch: Fighting Against Stereotypes in India
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On Contemporary Indian Politics and Society. Wednesday, August 23, 2006. Fighting Against Stereotypes in India. Stop denigrating Muslims as terrorists and madrasas as factories of terrorism . That was the cry by Muslim and Muslim leaders in India as a response to the increasing suspicion by the majority community on them. It is in the view of these recent incidents, both in India and globally, that recently, Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Hind, India’s premier organization of Muslim clerics, organized a convention on...
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India Watch: Integrating Indian Muslims to Fight Terror
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On Contemporary Indian Politics and Society. Wednesday, September 06, 2006. Integrating Indian Muslims to Fight Terror. Talking in the same vein as his PM, the Indian Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, said that his ministry has proposed a monitoring mechanism to ensure proper follow-up on intelligence inputs shared by central and state intelligence agencies. It has also asked states to strengthen the intelligence machinery up to the level of the police station by involving beat constables. PM Singh’s s...
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India Watch: US Mid-Term Elections: End of Indo – US Nuclear Deal?
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On Contemporary Indian Politics and Society. Friday, November 10, 2006. US Mid-Term Elections: End of Indo US Nuclear Deal? On the other hand, according to David Zweig of Center on China’s Transnational Relations, Hong Kong, the Republican defeat means a weaker executive and a weaker executive means a weakening of America’s China policy. According to him, US China relations do better when a President is strong, weak Presidents are no good for US China relations. First, the core of the agreement among the...
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India Watch: Affirmation of Diversity through Political Contract
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On Contemporary Indian Politics and Society. Sunday, October 08, 2006. Affirmation of Diversity through Political Contract. Argued in his famous book. That all humans are driven by two and only two impulses: fear of death and desire for power. If left unchecked, human beings would act on these impulses and live violent, brutish, inhumane, and solitary lives. Let’s take a brief look at the history of violence in India to reflect this phenomenon. In the beginning of this article, I quoted Thomas Hobbes’ de...
