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Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. He has written books including Blood Brothers, Nehru: The Making of India, Kashmir: Behind the Vale, Riot After Riot, The Shade of Swords, and India: The Siege Within. Close.

M.J. Akbar

India

Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. more »

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June 15, 2006 8:20 AM

Iranian "Hot Air" Doesn't Equal Power

New Delhi--The problem with this proposition lies in the "if." In fact, there is no possibility that Iran will become the pre-eminent power in the Middle East in the foreseeable future.

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June 17, 2006 3:00 AM

Don't Mix Popular Movements with Government

New Delhi -- The G-8 is an assembly of governments, not popular movements or insurgencies. Should Russia and the other G-8 countries send representatives to the Anti-Iraq War movements in America and Britain?

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June 20, 2006 8:58 AM

Back-Flip Multilateralism

New Delhi, India -- What a wonderful idea! Why not begin by choosing Kofi Annan's successor from the current general assembly in Germany? Teams that believe in kick-and-run rule themselves out as anathema to UN culture, which takes care of half the teams on display.

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June 25, 2006 9:41 AM

Some Questions Before Bombing

New Delhi, India -- The answer, regrettably, lies only in more questions -- though the ones I pose have the merit of eschewing morals, ethics and marginal notions like sovereign rights, which became the first casualty of George Bush's one-frontier war against terror.

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