Uddipan Mukherjee teaches physics under West Bengal University of Technology. As an avid student of South Asian politics, he has also become a successful freelance writer on the subject. He lives in Kolkata.
As India and Pakistan’s foreign ministers meet, it is a good time to explore exactly how healthy bilateral relations and the cross-border fight against terrorism are in the wake of the July 13 Mumbai blasts.
Is this temporary lull in conflict a natural dip in a civilian-based insurrection, or is it a forced milieu created by the supra-authorities through their gendarmes?
After a period of relative calm, Kashmir is on the boil again. Here, one writer proposes a “workable” solution to the ongoing issue from the Indian perspective.
In the wake of what is believed to be the deadliest attack by Maoists on government troops since the leftists launched their revolt more than 40 years ago, Newsline looks at the questions that remain unanswered.
The self-sustaining model of Indo-Pak rivalry has grown into its current state of egregious maturity, and as such, any person on either side of the border has the right to ask the countries’ leaders, “When you talk, why don’t you talk seriously?”