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The dynamics governing India-China-Japan ties
Prabhakar Gupta India, China and Japan, the three most powerful countries of the South and East Asian region are making a conscious effort to redefine their relationships in concert with the evolving dynamics. Old perceptions are giving way to new in a manner that has brought about far reaching changes in their traditional bilateral and trilateral postures. China, as is …
by Prabhakar Gupta on June 4th, 2013 Leave a comment »
There is a life beyond AFSPA Omar!!
Prabhakar Gupta Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was conferred with honorary membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in New Delhi. It seems that, while accepting the honour, he also held a press conference of sorts whose proceeding were reported in the media in great detail. One would have expected the chief minster to use this platform to …
by Prabhakar Gupta on May 23rd, 2013 Leave a comment »
Hartals and Bandhs have lost their relevance
Prabhakar Gupta As the Kashmir valley braces itself for the much awaited tourist season and a steady flow of tourists has taken off, the business community, right from the biggest trader to the smallest daily wager has a single worry to contend with – will the separatists disrupt this period of prime economic activity with their famous Hartal and Bandh …
by Prabhakar Gupta on May 12th, 2013 Leave a comment »
Chinese nuclear adventurism in support of Pakistan
Prabhakar Gupta “Beijing should not allow its ties with other countries to become an impediment to advancing Indo-China relations” – a very clear and direct message given by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the new Chinese President Xi Jiping in their first meeting at Durban in the sidelines of the BRIC conclave. There is enough reason to believe that this …
by Prabhakar Gupta on April 22nd, 2013 Leave a comment »
India has a national obligation to support the people of POK
Prabhakar Gupta On February, 17, 2013, Ali Murtaza, a 22 year old resident of Gulhar, Kotli, in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) proceeded on a visit to his relatives residing near the line of control (LOC) with India. Three days later, his body was delivered back to his family by the district administration; it bore terrible marks of torture and mutilation. …
by Prabhakar Gupta on March 11th, 2013 Leave a comment »
Hanging of Afsal Guru is over and done with; it is time to move on
Prabhakar Gupta The debate on the hanging of Afsal guru is marked with as many opinions as there are voices. More than anything else, it is the moral dilemmas that are being debated upon with utmost intensity. This is surprising because the execution was the result of a cut and dried legal process instituted by a nation against a declared …
by Prabhakar Gupta on February 12th, 2013 Leave a comment »
The time to look at China closely has arrived
Prabhakar Gupta China is positioning itself as a super power that will, in time, contest the unilateral power status of the United States. Such a posture has been extensively written about and speculated upon. The question that now arises is – How will China leverage this position if, as and when it attains the same. China’s growing belligerence in its …
by Prabhakar Gupta on January 21st, 2013 1 Comments »
In J&K the task of the Indian army has just begun
Prabhakar Gupta As of now, Pakistan is causing a polarisation of the different nature in India!! Eminent Indian writers, opinion makers and intellectuals hold wholly divergent views about the prevailing situation in the neighbouring country. While some are ready to swear that the country is going to the dogs, others are giving lengthy expositions to emphasise that the political churning …
by Prabhakar Gupta on January 18th, 2013 Leave a comment »
Contradictions are the bane of Kashmir politics
Prabhakar Gupta “It cannot be withdrawn unless it (the State) is quite and calm,” are the reported forceful words of Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde while referring to the revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. “Infiltration has increased. That is our information. We are worried. We are watchful in …
by Prabhakar Gupta on December 13th, 2012 Leave a comment »
Pakistan’s faulty education system has radicalised its society
Prabhakar Gupta The role of education in Nation building needs no emphasis; the matter gains more significance in democracies in view of the unique set of values that need to be imbibed in future generations to keep the inclusive, tolerant, democratic and free system of governance going. A key requirement is that children learn to understand what democracy and freedom …
by Prabhakar Gupta on November 17th, 2012 Leave a comment »
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