Cornering Prabhakaran
It’s only when you fly over the Wanni jungle do
you begin to understand why it’s taken the Sri Lankan armed forces
months to wrest territory from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE).
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Top issues for United States presidential candidates
The main candidates have declared international
relations, Iraq, security, energy and climate, Immigration, the
economy, trade, education, and health care as top issues. Few
opinions were comparable and the rest were differing from each
other.
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Protecting the troubled waters
Now that the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M
Karunanidhi has beaten a strategic retreat in double quick time on
the ultimatum he gave on ceasefire-or-else, focus has inevitably
shifted, among other things, to the question of the plight of the
fisherfolk. This is a perennial. New Delhi seems to have wrested a
huge concession from the Lankans who are in the process of
designating areas in their territorial waters where our fishermen
can go and fish.
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