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Abstract/Sommario: Ceasefire is over and now it is a fight to the finish in Sri Lanka and bloodbath is inevitable before the government can possibly vanquish the LTTE. Gli articoli: All-out war / B. Muralidhar Reddy (the government is accused of abrogating the ceasefire agreement at the behest of ultra-nationalist political groups in order to ensure their support in Parliament. This is based on the assessment that the LTTE has been cornered like never before. The Tigers, led by V. Prabakaran, however, ha ...; [Leggi tutto...] Ceasefire is over and now it is a fight to the finish in Sri Lanka and bloodbath is inevitable before the government can possibly vanquish the LTTE. Gli articoli: All-out war / B. Muralidhar Reddy (the government is accused of abrogating the ceasefire agreement at the behest of ultra-nationalist political groups in order to ensure their support in Parliament. This is based on the assessment that the LTTE has been cornered like never before. The Tigers, led by V. Prabakaran, however, have the capability to fight a war); The dispossessed ( According to U.N. report, the majority of a million people displaced in hostilities and natural disaster since 1999 languish in transit camps); Political battles (It is not because of a lack of proposals that the ethnic conflict has dragged on for decades); Global isolation / D. B. S. Jeyaraj (pressure from the international community weakens the LTTE, and the government in Colombo decides to seize the opportunity); Requiem for truce / Sharmin Serasinghe (however flawed, the Ceasefire Agreement of 2002 had benefits that were not visible to many); Point of no return / Jaydeva Uyangoda ( the abrogation of the ceasefire agreement re-inaugurates a period of intense war escalation. What appears disturbing is that some influential political forces in Sri Lanka wanted the war back); Unease in Delhi / John Cherian (The strong statement by India can be construed as being critical of the Sri Lankan government's decision to end the ceasefire formally. Recent developments are unlikely to impact adversely the close bilateral ties between India and Sri Lanka. At the same time, New Delhi has been urging Colombo to put forward a credible devolution package at the earliest)

Abstract/Sommario: Discoveries made at Bhirrana in Haryana provide the missing link in the evolution of Harappan civilisation archaelogy. The excavations throw up evidence for the first time of an unbroken cultural sequence, starting from village culture and evolving into a semi-urban and then an urban culture