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My take in rediff: (http://www.rediff.com/news/column/nitin-a-gokhale-the-state-has-abdicated-its-responsbility-for-assam/20141229.htm)   The situation in Assam would be a farce, if it wasn’t such a tragedy. Over 80 people, among them women and children, have been mercilessly massacred by a breakaway faction of a group that is purportedly in peace talks with the government. Every year,…

The article below was originally written in early October for the CLAWS (Centre for Land Ware Studies) Journal, Winter 2014 edition, much before the elections in Sri Lanka was announced by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.    The conviction in September 2014 of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha in an 18-year…

(http://www.rediff.com/news/column/nitin-a-gokhale-how-social-media-is-denting-the-armys-image-in-kashmir/20141209.htm) Fighting a well-trained, heavily-armed enemy is routine for the Indian Army in Kashmir. It, however, appears clueless in the face of an almost daily ambush by warriors of the social media. While brave troops eliminated six suicide attackers in Uri on Friday, December 5, in less than six hours,…