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India, Africa must stick together: Top UN envoy

By Manish Chand

Ahead of a crucial round of negotiations on reform of the UN Security Council next month, Cheick Sidi Diarra, the top UN envoy for Africa, says India and the 53-nation continent should 'stick together' through twists and turns to realise their long-standing quest for permanent seats on the global high table.

A second Arab revolution - for a new social order (Comment)

Harold A. Gould

The uprising in Egypt, and in Tunisia before it, and the current ferment in the Middle East, is much more than just a random eruption or two of public discontent with stray military dictators and corrupt politicians today. It is the commencement of the second wave of the Arab liberation movement. In the first wave, the Arabs liberated themselves from colonial powers and foreign domination.

Egypt: test of US policy of supporting dictators (Comment)

By Amulya Ganguli

The Egyptian crisis has exposed American hypocrisy more starkly than ever before. In a classical case of a confrontation between autocracy and freedom, which the upsurge in Egypt represents, the dithering of the land of the free and home of the brave on which side to support is yet another confirmation about how the US has always been equivocal about democracy outside its own shores.

India must look outward to reap demographic dividend

By Shiv Muttoo

Recent reports indicate India may not meet its objective of a stable population base by 2045. Instead, this goal is likely to be met only by 2060 when the country's population stabilizes at 1.65 billion -- 200 million more than the original target. After 10 years of rigorous enforcement, the mark has moved forward 15 years!

'India can unlock Africa's potential'

Dr Fantu Cheru is the co-editor of 'The Rise of China and India in Africa' and the author of over half a dozen books, including 'African Renaissance: Roadmap to Challenges of Globalization. In this interview with Manish Chand, Cheru, research director at The Nordic Africa Institute, speaks about the interplay of emerging Asian powers in a renascent Africa.

Egypt uprising echoes Philippines 25 years ago

By Rajendra Bajpai

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt is facing the toughest challenge to his 30-year rule but he is not the only dictator in the world not to read the signals on his radar. His own unarmed people have risen in revolt against him but that is not the way he sees it.

Will the Jasmine Revolution result in true democracy?

By Shadan Farasat

Its first successful popular overthrow of an authoritarian government is making waves across the Arab would.

Change in Tunisia: Will it have a domino effect?

By Gwynne Dyer

Though there is an outburst of sheer exasperation with the corruption and incompetence of the Ben Ali regime, it's not clear whether the street demonstrations that have driven the Tunisian ruler into exile will lead to a genuine democracy

A disintegrating Pakistan: Choices for US and India (Comment)

By Harold A. Gould

As Pakistan sinks steadily into the pit of political oblivion, it will inevitably drag the US' Afghan policy down the drain with it, because without the availability of Pakistan's logistical and civil infrastructure, and regardless of Gen. David Petraeus's (top US military commander in Afghanistan) vaunted military talents, what remains of America's struggle to wrest Afghanistan from eventual Taliban investiture is almost certainly doomed to failure.