The Karmapa conundrum
Beijing might have been more sophisticated than publicly to raise sovereignty issues in the context of the young Karmapa Lama finding refuge in India. His flight from Tibet, not his presence in India, raises questions about the extent of Chinese authority in Tibet.



Intelligence -- Zero
The reward of suffering is experience,'' Aeschylus wrote twenty-four centuries ago. By any standard, the blood-letting at Kargil was suffering indeed. Did India learn from the experience?



Islamic distress and reality
Islam and terrorism are two different paths and have nothing to do with each other. Its leader Maulana Shafi Moonis joined other Muslim leaders and ulema in denouncing the recent hijacking of Indian Airlines plane from Kathmandu.



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