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दहशतवादाचा चक्रव्यूह! १३ जुलैच्या बॉम्बस्फोटांमुळेमहानगरी मुंबईला पुन्हा एकदाआतंकवादाचा सामना करावालागला आहे . या स्फोटांनीमोठ्या प्रमाणावर जीवितहानीकेली नसली तरीही लोकांमध्येभीती निर्माण केली आणिअनेकांच्या जुन्या जखमाजागवल्या . लोकांना कायमच२६ / ११सारख्या मोठ्याघटनांची भीती वाटत राहावी ,हेच छोट्या हल्ल्यांचे एक उद्दिष्टअसते . त्या दृष्टीने सरकार आणि सुरक्षा यंत्रणेचे लक्ष्य लोकांमधली सुरक्षिततेचीभावना मजबूत ठेवणे हे असले पाहिजे . म्हणूनच याक्षणी असा प्रश्न विचारावासावाटतो की २६ / ११नंतर आपले सरकार आणि सुरक्षा यंत्रणांनी असे काय केले , जेवेगळे आहे आणि ज्यामुळे नागरिकांना अधिक आश्वस्त वाटावे ? ...

from ChinaDaily Building Sustainable Peace; An Agenda for India China Military Dialogue With the visit of a high level Indian defence delegation to Beijing, India and China are set to resume their military dialogue. This is a confidence building step expected to be followed by the fourth level of their bilateral defence dialogue since it began in 2007. Lot of anxious watchers are following this development closely, from all around the world and from all quarters of the society, since this round of dialogue is taking place at an extremely critical juncture. Despite the three dialogues before, and notwithstanding multiple meetings between the leadership of the two countries, the 2011 defence dialogue will take place under the shadow of recent history. Therefore, it would be a first success of the 2011 dialogue if the two sides agree to avoid recurrence of the kind of instances that took the bilateral relations to their lowest level in the last decade. It will ensure that the future...

17th Party Congress The 5 th   Plenary Session of the 17 th   Party Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was recently held in Beijing. This plenum is particularly important because it comes at the cusp of an important political transformation as well as the beginning of a new phase in the Chinese economy.  What is the importance of this Plenum?  My perspectives on the Plenum has been published  here on OpinionAsia . I welcome your criticism and comments!

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Why PRC does not like Liu’s Nobel Prize?   Since China’s dissident intellectual Liu Xiaobo was announced to be the Nobel Peace Prize winner for the year 2010, debates on democracy and China have got a fresh lease of life. Liu Xiaobo, main architect of the Charter 08 and a prominent voice on democratisation, human rights and rule of law in China, who has been under arrest since December 2008 under the charge of “inciting the subversion of the state power” is suddenly being projected as a hero of the epic struggle for democratisation in and of China. On the other hand, the Chinese media, visibly upset with the award to Liu, is busy projecting him as a villain and the Nobel Committee as the agency that wants to destabilise the People’s Republic. This is completely on the expected lines as can be understood from the trajectory of the previous debates on China, democracy and human rights. West accuses China of abusing human rights and ignoring the rule of law. China in return accuse...

MAP from IDR China's Kashmir Calculus: Alternative Explanations China's new approach to Kashmir is not surprising. India has equal right to reciprocate China's behaviour. However any action before explaining the Chinese behaviour  in its entirety would be counterproductive. China's behaviour can be understood from three perspectives. My recently published article on the Blog, The Broad Mind .

Does China's Economic Power translate into Great Power Status? Below is the full version of the article I published in  September  2010 on Opinion  Asia. Since the website is not  functional  any more, sharing it with the readers of this blog. I welcome your comments on this idea! In the recent times, the news of People’s Republic of China becoming the World’s second largest economy in terms of GDP has caught the imagination of observers of China. If the predictions are to be true, then China will become the world’s largest economy sometime in the next couple of decades. Whether about something good or bad, numbers and statistic about the People’s Republic have always been awe-inspiring. However, the question that could and should be asked at this important juncture is about the meaning of these numbers. Since there are many caveats to the present China rise theory, the ability of the economic status to transform China into a great power has been ques...