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Guest Column : Tackling the Naxal Insurgency
June 4 , 2010 Lt Gen JFR Jacob (retd)
Views: 4929
The Naxal Insurgency started in the tiny thatched hut village of Naxalbari in 1967 by Charu Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal. By 1969, it had spread all over West Bengal. The main cause was economic, rampant po...

Leftwing Extremism

Tackling Maoism - Hopes of A Political Consensus
May 28 , 2010 Dr A Surya Prakash
Views: 6497
Though, as always, valuable time of parliament was lost in disruptions and political bickering, the just concluded Budget Session had one significant outcome – the emergence of a consensus across the po...

Leftwing Extremism

Manipur’s Disturbing Downslide of Terrorism, Law and Order and Corruption-2009 and 2010
May 26 , 2010 Lt Col Anil Bhat
Views: 9378
“When Jammu and Kashmir was blockaded a couple of years ago the matter kept the Government and media preoccupied for months. Manipur has been blockaded for at least a month and a half, without any respi...

Terrorism, North-East Insurgency, National Security and Strategic Studies

Left Wing Extremism – The Threat and Response
May 21 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 11906
Six years back, when on November 4, 2004, the Prime Minister proclaimed Left Wing Extremism as the biggest threat confronting the nation that had to be dealt at ‘war footing’, it had a ring of resolve o...

Leftwing Extremism, National Security and Strategic Studies

Laser Isotope Separation and the CTBT
May 20 , 2010 Dr. R R Subramanian
Views: 7585
Nuclear weapons based on fissionable Plutonium 239 (Pu-239) have generally to be tested because of the problem posed by the Isotope Pu-240. Pu-240 forms easily in nuclear power reactors due to the irrad...

Military Affairs

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Should our tryst with EVMs end?
May 17 , 2010 Dr A Surya Prakash
Views: 5079
The Electronic Voting Machines have attracted a lot of attention in the media of late. Why is it that technologically advanced countries like the United States (Florida), Germany, Netherlands and Ireland have rejected the use of these machines? There are informed articles by experts like J Alex Halderman that suggest that these machines can be tampered with or hacked by experts to fudge the results. There is no way of recounting or double-checks. Why then has India alone placed such an oracular faith in the EVM? Do we have the technology that is different and superior to anything else in the world? Could this endanger democracy? Do we need a serious rethink? A. Surya Prakash carries out an in depth analysis.

Governance and Political Studies

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