The maoist problem in India has a long history. It is one of those movements which over the years have changed color from a pristine white to a dark shade of black. The roots of the problem lie not in some terrorist movement and neither is it the product of the state funded cross border terrorism. The roots of this problem lie in the Freedom struggle of India. Back in the heydays of the freedom struggle‚ the naaxals were a band of outlaws in and around the West Bengal‚ Bihar and Orissa border. They
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Sixty years ago‚ in the summer of 1948‚ our nation‚ then newly born‚ was struggling for its very survival. In January‚ Mahatma Gandhi had been murdered by a Hindu fanatic. The act had shocked many Indians‚ but apparently it had the approval of some. According to one news report‚ the jailed assassin‚ Nathuram Godse‚ received an average of 50 letters a day expressing admiration for his action. This was part of a much wider right-wing‚ religious‚ reaction against Partition. Hindu and Sikh refugees
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The military use of young children takes three distinct forms: children can take direct part in hostilities (child soldiers)‚ or they can be used in support roles such as porters‚ spies‚ messengers‚ look outs‚ and sexual slaves; or they can be used for political advantage either as human shields or in propaganda. Throughout history and in many cultures‚ children have been extensively involved in military campaigns even when such practices were supposedly against cultural morals. Since the 1970s
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Should India be broken up into smaller states? After the decision to give statehood to Telangana‚ many analysts want a new States Reorganization Commission. India today has 28 states. Assuming 20% population growth since the last census‚ Uttar Pradesh has 198 million people‚ more than Brazil‚ Russia or Pakistan. Maharashtra has 106 million‚ West Bengal 96 million and Andhra Pradesh 90 million. All are much bigger than France or Britain. At the other end of the scale‚ Sikkim has just 0.6 million
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INDIA’S Contemporary Security Challenges Edited by Michael Kugelman IndIa’s Contemporary seCurIty Challenges Essays by: Bethany Danyluk Michael Kugelman Dinshaw Mistry Arun Prakash P.V. Ramana Siddharth Srivastava Nandini Sundar Andrew C. Winner Edited by: Michael Kugelman ©2011 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars‚ Washington‚ D.C. www.wilsoncenter.org Available from : Asia Program Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue
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New Delhi June 30‚ 2007The last years have seen a dramatic rise in Naxal violence‚ and this week’s incidents prove that little is being done to contain it. It was a warm April afternoon. Humidity rose like a blanket from the jungles around Murkinar‚ a small hamlet in Dantewada district‚ Chhattisgarh. Murkinar has two claims to fame: it has a police post on the side of the road and it is linked by a bus that plies between this hamlet and Bijapur‚ a nearby town. As usual‚ villagers were waiting
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I. Underlying issues or major ideas and concepts Doctor Salwa Ammar a faculty of Le Moyne College (one of 28 sister institution in the United States and more than 100 Jesuits universities worldwide) attempt to describe the teaching of OR/MS as a natural part of the Jesuits tradition in education and to construct a case why and how OR/MS found a natural home within the Jesuit Education‚ The author was frequently asked “What‘s an operating research professor doing in a nice‚ liberal arts school like
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cheesecake. The second layer of the cheese cake is the creamy fresh cheese‚ cheese as you all know differs in flavor from type to type‚ but Salwa choose the best type of cheese‚ her friends are the delicious‚ valuable cheese which makes her life interesting‚ and full of joy and the one who used on the best is hardly able to accept the less. Salwa is a girl who full with ambition‚ she never accept to be at the end she always struggle and fight to be the best‚ that’s why she works hard to
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Introduction Democracy is a form of government where people surrender some of their rights to a small elite body who are elected by people to rule over themselves. This elite body or the public representatives make law for the betterment of people. Once elected the public representatives remain all powerful till the end of the term by constitutional provision or otherwise because the constitution does not provide “call back” power to the people. The assumed principle is that these public representatives
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In this essay I will compare between the story of Zahra by hanan el shik and the wiles of men by salwa bakr . first of all both el shik and bakr are arab women. Hanan Al-Shaykh was born in 1945 in Beirut‚ Lebanon. Al-Shaykh began writing at a young age and by sixteen had essays published in the newspaper she would eventually work for‚ al-Nahar. She attended the American College for Girls in Cairo‚ Egypt from 1963 to 1966. After her graduation she worked in television in Beirut and as a journalist
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