Myanmar

The New Great Game

Rami Niranjan Desai

How the ethnic equilibrium in Manipur, central to India’s Act East Policy, is tied to mineral-rich Myanmar

Myanmar’s Opium Poisons Manipur

Open

The state government’s action against encroachments in forest areas and a rise in opium production in Myanmar

Cabinet Hustle

Open

The national capital’s grapevine was buzzing with talk of a possible shuffle of the Union Council of Ministers

Aung San Suu Kyi: The Evolution of an Icon

Lhendup G Bhutia

She has been made an outcast again

The French Connection

Stephen Fein and Krishnan Srinivasan

India’s attitude to refugees from Myanmar mirrors France’s inconsistent treatment to Germans fleeing Nazi persecution

Cashing in on a Coup, Beijing Style

Iqbal Chand Malhotra

A pro-Beijing government in Myanmar means India’s land gateway to Southeast Asia is likely to be nipped in the bud

The Tragedy of Aung San Suu Kyi

TP Sreenivasan

Given her erstwhile alliance with the military, she will get much less sympathy from the world today

The ambitious Kalandan Corridor project financed by New Delhi that links Myanmar and the Northeast is in peril. The current deadlock endangers Indian interests in the region and efforts to uplift the people of trouble-hit areas of the eastern neighbour