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AKD, the silent diplomat?
By Kassapa/Counterpoint Colombo, March 12 – A few weeks ago, when President Anura Kumara Dissanayake used his good offices to convince Pakistan to send its cricket team to play India in Colombo in the T20 Cricket World Cup after they had initially refused to do...
US torpedoing ‘IRIS Dena’, an eye-opener for Indian Ocean region
By Shanika Sriyananda/DailyFT Colombo, March 11 – A US submarine torpedoing the Iranian warship – the IRIS Dena – in the Indian Ocean (IO) about 19 nautical miles off Sri Lanka killing at least 87 unarmed Iranian sailors and enabling Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) to...
Nepal’s election results seen from a South Asian perspective
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily News Colombo, March 10 – Nepal’s recently concluded parliamentary elections have features of interest to other South Asian countries. The Nepalese elections have thrown up a new Gen Z-inspired party, the Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP), as the winner. This is in contrast with...
For the first time in the Indian subcontinent – Bangladesh will give honorarium to priests of all religions
religions Imams, Hindu and Christian priests and Buddhist monks to ger honorariums from March 14
Contrasting positions of women in South Asia
By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, March 8 – South Asia is a sub-continent of contrasts. On the one hand, it has produced the largest number of women Prime Ministers, but on the other, women’s participation in the formal workforce is just 33% when the world average...
Can India exercise strategic autonomy when US and Israel give no room for it?
New Delhi also finds itself in the US camp without deriving its benefits
Subservience of Silence: India’s Complicity in U.S.-Israel’s Unjust War Against Iran
The Hindutva government of Narendra Modi remained silent as the U.S. torpedoed Iranian warship that just days ago participated in naval exercise alongside Indian Navy in the Bay of Bengal.
In the age of power, India must play peacemaker
Formal multilateral institutions remain important. However, they were designed for a different distribution of power and a different strategic climate
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