Overall, based on how the Manipur situation has been handled, India is already a failed state, and it will remain such if the current government continues to tread on a dangerously thin line. If hope is to be found, it may not be wrong to say that there is still time to retool response approaches, or else the conflict may be extended beyond the current involving groups as the Manipur crisis enters a new phase.
By Augustine R.
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It aptly sums up the position now for Myanmar’s military rulers and the resistance fighters being drawn deeper into conflict with each atrocity. They are fighting for the past, present and the future and can’t let go now, writes Tharaphi Than.
View More Military violence in Myanmar is worsening
The first COMAC C919 has been delivered to China Eastern and will begin commercial operations soon. While the ramp-up will be gradual, COMAC now has orders from Chinese airlines and leasing companies for over 1,100 C919 aircraft. For the West, this means 1,100 aircraft that Boeing or Airbus will not produce, worth roughly $100 billion at list prices. Read More…
By ICNA
View More Insight: The COMAC C919 is a Game Changer | West vs China
A bitter historical conflict has raged and continues to rage between India, Burma (now officially Myanmar), and the Naga people since the Naga declaration of independence on August 14, 1947, and those sitting at the negotiation table should take into account the four critical truths outlined in the analysis, writes Augustine R.
By Augustine R.
View More India, Myanmar, and the Naga people: Unresolved International Colonial Political Conflict
Acts of defiance, big and small, have continued uninterrupted across multiple generations. Women’s activism has been constant, as has their imprisonment. In the past, major demonstrations were crushed, but regardless of how the current protests turn out, they underscore that the headcover issue is not going away – and has the potential to amplify anti-regime sentiments in Iran and abroad.
View More Headcovers have always been political in Iran – for women on all sides
Repeat a supposed fact sufficient times and it will become assumed truth. That seems the case very much when it comes to claims about China’s oppression of the Uyghurs in its western Xinjiang province. Supposedly one million or more Uyghurs have been imprisoned in vast re-education camps with the term ‘genocide’ being frequently used. Even the charge of infanticide has been laid. Not all that is supposed however, is reality.
View More When facts are not necessarily facts. The Uyghurs and China
As global democracies lined up to condemn the actions of Russia in Ukraine, one country was less forthcoming in its criticism – and it was the largest democracy of them all: India. Throughout the ongoing crisis, the government in India has carefully avoided taking an unequivocal position. It has abstained on every United Nations resolution dealing with the matter and refused to join the international community in economic measures against Moscow, prompting a warning from the U.S. over potentially circumventing sanctions. Here’s Why!
View More Want to know why India has been soft on Russia? Take a look.
Pakistan, a nuclear nation that is home to some 220 million people, is in a political mess. On April 3, 2022, Prime Minister – and former national sporting hero – Imran Khan dissolved Parliament to get ahead of a no-confidence vote. That vote would have seen parliamentarians decide whether or not to support Khan’s premiership and would have likely seen him ousted from power.
By Ayesha Jalal
View More What is going on in Pakistan? And why has the US been dragged into it?You cannot copy content of this page