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Current Issue: January 2009

Beyond 26/11
ISI has circulated two maps to the Pakistani army’s top brass and has
given them the target of destabilising India by 2020, writes
R C GANJOO. more...

CRISIS MANAGEMENT
Our ‘non-acting state players’
What did the Crisis Management Group under the Cabinet Secretary do in the 60 hours of terror in Mumbai? The intelligence Czar, who is supposed to smell trouble and the CGM, expected to douse the fires, are both under the Prime Minister. But the buck is made to stop elsewhere, argues TNR Rao, analyzing India's 26/11.more...

TERROR FACE OF CINEMA
Bollywood’s take on terrorism
The first to approach the theme (terrorism) boldly was Mani Ratnam whose Tamil-Hindi Roja (1992) about the abduction of a young government officer, and his wife's relentless struggle to get him back became a torch-bearer, says eminent critic SURESH KOHLI, talking about how Indian cinema has dealt with terror and militancy as worthwhile subjects.more...

CHANGE OF GUARD
Can Obama do an FDR?
The world is waiting anxiously to see whether Barack H Obama's CHANGE agenda encompasses the elements of the famous 'New Deal' of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and more, and goes beyond the Atlantic in reach and influence, in keeping with the needs of the times and America's pulling power, writes S NARENDRA. more...

PUNJAB FRONT
Finance Commission's advice to Punjab
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal told the finance commission that Punjab, touching a live and hostile international border with Pakistan, be treated as "a special national zone" where people must be compensated on the development front for the sacrifices they have been making in the overall national interest, reports VP PrabhakarL more...

HARYANA MONITOR
Strange Marriage ends a political career
What was behind the strange marriage of Chander Mohan, now Chand Mohammad, with longtime paramour Anuradha Bali, now Fiza? JENNY SMITH gives the bizarre background that lies in a family feud. more...

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