The Young India

Ananth Venkatesh

It is good that Colombo was victorious in 2009 in its fight against the poison of the LTTE and that LTTE’s terror has ended. 
Ananth Venkatesh gives us a brief account of Tamil-Sinhalese conflict that has plagued Sri Lanka.

The inability of the Indian state to execute the convicted assassinators of Rajiv Gandhi, despite the repeated judicial green signals, is a perilous and worrisome indicator of the political irresoluteness that exists in the national government.

Rajiv was an ex-PM at night on …

Ananth Venkatesh

Standalone story. You may like to read ‘The Case for Israel’ by the same author.

The Palestinians today have to accept certain ground realities. They refused to share their land with the Jews in 1947. The Palestinians have no land for themselves even now. Palestinian leadership has to discontinue making unrealistic demands such as to accommodate refugees from the 1948 war.

Israel can’t accommodate the descendants of the Palestinian refugees from the 1948 War. It isn’t a feasible demand. That will …

Ananth Venkatesh

American president Barack Obama has recently outlined his vision as regards the solution to the cancer that has bedevilled the Middle East since 1948 i.e. the Palestinian-Israeli territorial conflict.

What Obama spoke was, basically, a reaffirmation of the policy pursued by his conservative predecessor, George Bush, on this significant issue. Obama, unequivocally and lucidly, voiced that an independent Palestine would have to be created on two of the four territories that Israel had occupied during the June War in 1967. The two territories …

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Osama was slaughtered in Pakistan. He had been residing in Pakistan for some time. His compound was located close to the Pakistani military centre. Obviously, it doesn’t take too much cerebral effort to determine that sections within the Pakistani services were safeguarding Osama.

This is a classic case of Pakistani ‘two-facedness’. The difference is that, before 9/11, Pakistani duplicity skinned and drained India largely. Hence, the influential nations in the world were unconcerned or, at best, indifferent, believing Pakistani terrorism in India to …

Ananth Venkatesh

The slaying of the international terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, and the liquidation of his confederates by the American Special Forces have ceased a gory chapter of Islamic terrorism. Osama was a vile terrorist, whose ideology was responsible for the engenderment of a slew of young Muslim terrorists globally. One interesting facet of Osama is that his blood-spattered fundamentalism disseminated through the Muslim world because of his monetary assets and apparent charismatic persona.

The American military intervention in Afghanistan in the 1980s to uproot …

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Any nationalistic Indian outlook will not desire the dilution of Indian connection to AP and Sikkim as Indian troops have sacrificed their lives and shed their blood to keep these two provinces with India.

China is a godless nation, with which India shares a colossal frontier. Ideally, China should never have been permitted to border India. The attachment of the Chinese border to the Indian border took place in the 1950s as a consequence of the grisly and lawless conquest of Tibet then …

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The author traces China’s fall to the state of intellectual and administrative disintegration that has now led to its confrontations with India.

• The commonplace Chinese citizens were enmeshed in a civil war for four years subsequent to the culmination of WW 2 in August 1945 after the Japanese surrender.
• Then, the civil strife in China had, as its participants, Communist militias pitted against the anti Communist (Nationalist) militias. Also, millions of the Chinese civilians, who were the members of either the Nationalist or

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Overview

The recent popular demonstrations against the autocratic governments in the countries of the Islamic world such as Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen are indicative of the profound discontentment and disillusionment that has penetrated the psyche of the ordinary Mohammedans there.

Rationales Contributing To The Political Wobbliness In The Muslim World

1) Lebanese Hezbollah

Hezbollah, which is a Shiite organization, exists politically as well as militarily in the ethnically sundry Lebanon. Hezbollah, which is subsidized as well as armed clandestinely by the …

Ananth Venkatesh

The insurrection of a sizable segment of the Libyan populace against the Libyan autocrat, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, is a continuation of the popular mutinies that have characterized the Mohammedan world recently.

The civil strife is anchored in tribalism as the Colonel’s tyranny has spawned loads of loathing for his tribe. The demonstrators on the Libyan lanes predominantly belong to the opposing tribes of Libya that desire to witness the dethronement of the Colonel and his tribe.

It is strongly possible that the demonstrators …

Reema Prasanna

Hindi Cinema and Indian Politics are successful businesses that are, very wrongly, labelled as democratic. They are a mechanism for controlling the ‘majority’.

The majority of India are very simple people, characterised by a basic level of education and understood as having a basic understanding of life. Long term ‘intelligent’ choices are not inclusive to their everyday life.

This majority is presumably—at least legally—poor. Daily rations at throw-away prices; Rs. 2 per kilo. The majority buys this rice and comes back home with …