Sunday Column - Select articles of the week

Team OpEd is introducing another new feature starting this Sunday, where we share the most interesting and piquant articles that were published in the past one week. These articles may or may not have much relevance to the current affairs, but thought provoking never the less. Hope you will find them interesting to read!

Here are the 'select few' articles of the week:

• "In the promiscuous world of international relations, elements of a strategic partnership"   - this article explores India's top 6 strategic allies and tries to compare them on par by rating them on a different parameters.
• "Anniversary of shame" - this article exposes truth about Guantánamo Bay and actual conviction rate of the people held at this detention centre.
• " 'Breaking the Silence' on a massacre" - this article throws light on Indonesia's biggest yet suppressed genocide that took 0.5 million lives during 1965 time line
• "Because Andaman's forests are Jarawa infested ..." - This article focuses on the supreme court order violation in the island state for close to a decade while also factoring in the ethical issue at stake.
• "It's boom time for people smugglers" - this article provides us with an account of the emerging Afghan emigration problem and the reason behind it.

• "Brick In The Wall" - India has performed abysmally in the recent examinations and reports prepared nationally and internationally.  Its horrific and pathetic condition can be rectified - but only by introducing quality into the primary and secondary education system.
• "Mitigate Climate Change" - The Economic Survey will now include a chapter on financing measures to mitigate climate change. The article gives the relationship between the two.

• "India misses its sputnik moment" - In this article, a small fact is shown in the right strategic sense. The sputnik success by USSR ushered in an era of education reform and strategic investment in research in the US. How did India lose its sputnik moment?
• Women clothes: A victim or victimised? - this article tries to reason out to the readers whether or not women clothes can be held guilty.