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...recent decades and its emergence as a key player in global affairs under the Congress-led government of Manmohan Singh has put an air of anachronism around the venerable Communists. "In this day and age, why do you still celebrate the 90th anniversary of the October revolution," asks Surjit Bhalla, a financial pundit and anchor of the show "Tough Talk" on NDTV, one of India's main cable news networks. "How many democratic parties in the world have a bust of Stalin in their headquarters...
Gandhi moved decisively to quell the crisis, pressuring Punjab Chief Minister Surjit Singh Barnala to arrest an estimated 200 Sikh political leaders and extremist figures in predawn sweeps. Chief among them: Prakash Singh Badal, leader of a breakaway faction of the Akali Dal party, which rules Punjab state, and Gurcharan Singh Tohra, the powerful head of the state committee that manages Sikh temples. Tohra, who has been accused of appeasing terrorists, was detained after he announced he would abolish the special security force that since last summer has prevented the use of the Golden Temple as a haven for terrorists...
...forcing its way into the nuclear club confirms its great-nation status and makes the rest of the world, especially the U.S., pay it the attention it deserves. "Indian politicians feel they're not being listened to in the world because we don't have the Bomb," says Surjit Mansingh, a disarmament professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "They follow Mao's advice that a loud fart is better than a long lecture." Even though he was "bitterly disappointed," the ever empathetic Clinton suggested that India may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem because...
...attention to promoting vast poverty relief and local rule schemes. Still, Gandhi's advisers say that if the Prime Minister is returned to power, he will push forward with deregulation and other reforms. If Gandhi is defeated, his successor may have little choice but to do the same. Says Surjit Bhalla, an economist with the Policy Group, a New Delhi think tank: "After what has happened in the past five years in the global economy, Indian policymakers have finally realized that socialism has failed to deliver the goods...
...injured. Moreover, this time many moderate Sikhs seemed to accept the well-planned raid as a necessary move to stem the increasing violence that has racked the northern Indian state of Punjab over the past few months. Indeed, the final go-ahead was given by Punjab's chief minister, Surjit Singh Barnala, who was compelled to move against the extremists after they issued a call for Sikhs to take up arms against New Delhi and declare an independent Sikh nation, Khalistan...