As India intended to end the Nagaland insurgency forever 8 years ago, it announced the construction of a statue and memorial to Gaidinliu—the uncrowned queen of a rebellion against British power.
The figures for weapons that were declared stolen or seized by mobs in Manipur is more than a hundred times the number of militants in Jammu and Kashmir.
Communal and majoritarian logic cannot be applied in the Northeast. It requires secular & constitutional governance, which safeguards ethnic and tribal interests.
Finding resolutions to identity conflict needs genuine democratic institution building, which will allow communities to meaningfully exercise power over their own lives.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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