Author: Dr Rajkumar Singh

Local body amendments and federalism in India

At the beginning of the 1990s, the implementation of dual policies of liberalisation and decentralisation was significant as the local bodies in their functioning reduced the role of the bureaucracy while increasing grass-root level...

New dimensions of Naxal movement in India

In an important development the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist – Leninist) People’s War, also known as People’s War Group or PWG merged to form a...

Status of regionalism and ethnicity in Pakistan

Under a well-thought plan, Bhutto falsified the separatist movement of Pushtuns, essentially an ethnic struggle of the Pathans, in guidance of ‘Frontier Gandhi’, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.  The struggles of Pathans for a homeland...