MANTRAYA BRIEF#10: 24 SEPTEMBER 2015 Profile: Mirza Shadaab Beg of Indian Mujahideen Bibhu Prasad Routray & Manoj Kumar Panigrahi – – Mirza Shadaab Beg alias Engineer was born in Raja ka Quila under Kotwali Police circle in Uttar Pradesh state’s Azamgarh district. Son of Mirza Ahatesham Beg, Shadaab pursued engineering prior to his joining the […]
EVENT: 3-4 SEPTEMBER 2015 Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA) – Dr. Shanthie Mariet D’Souza participated and presented a paper at the 6th Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA) held in Kabul, Afghanistan on 3-4 September 2015. Initiated in 2005, the RECCA series of Conferences have previously been held in Kabul, New Delhi, Islamabad, Istanbul, and […]
EVENT: 24-27 AUGUST 2015 Gulf Research Meeting 2015 – Dr. Shanthie Mariet D’Souza and Dr. Bibhu Prasad Routray presented a paper on “India in BRICS and Indo-GCC relations: Assessing Conflicts and Complimentarities” at the 2015 Gulf Research Meeting (GRM), University of Cambridge, between 24-27 August 2015. The GRM has been established by the Gulf Research Center Cambridge to […]
MANTRAYA BRIEF#09: 15 AUGUST 2015 Maldives: Footprints of the Islamic State Surya Valliappan Krishna – Abstract Muslim majority Maldives is becoming a prime recruiting ground for the Islamic State. Over 200 Maldivians have joined the Islamic State. Political instability at home has allowed the Islamists to push their anti-democracy and pro-Islamist agenda. And the official […]
MANTRAYA BRIEF#08: 07 AUGUST 2015 Profile: Mohsin Chaudhary of Indian Mujahideen Bibhu Prasad Routray & Manoj Kumar Panigrahi – – Born on 6 November 1980, Mohsin Ismail Chaudhary alias Sayyed is one of the three sons of Ismail Ibrahim Choudhary residing in Manisha Complex in Mitha Nagar area of Kondhwa Khurd in Pune city. Ismail Ibrahim […]
– MANTRAYA ANALYSIS#04: 29 JULY 2015 Gurdaspur terror attack: Reigniting the Khalistan dream? Bibhu Prasad Routray & Surya Valliappan Krishna – Abstract The terror attack in Gurdaspur on 27 July 2015 points at an expanded game plan by the terror outfits and their sponsors in Pakistan. A bloody Punjab fits well into the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)’s […]
– MANTRAYA SPECIAL REPORT#02: 16 JULY 2015 Islamic State’s Indian Brigade – Surya Valliappan Krishna & Bibhu Prasad Routray – Abstract Over the past year, a number of Indians and people of Indian origin have been associated with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Mantraya.org profiles these individuals who have shared different categories of […]
EVENT: 10-11 JULY 2015 India and its Neighbourhood: An Audit of Conflict and Peace – Bibhu Prasad Routray presented two papers, “Myanmar: Competing Aspirations in a Fractured Nation” and “Left-wing Extremism: Sparks from a Flailing Revolution” at the annual conference “India and its neighbourhood: An Audit of Conflict and Peace”, hosted by the Institute of Peace […]
– MANTRAYA SPECIAL REPORT#01: 13 JULY 2015 Made in Myanmar: Small Arms for North-eastern Insurgents Bibhu Prasad Routray – Abstract In addition to the Chinese-manufactured small arms that land up regularly in the hands of the insurgents operating in India’s northeast, Myanmar is emerging of late as a significant source of such weapons. At the heart […]
– MANTRAYA ANALYSIS#03: 02 JULY 2015 Islamic State and the South Asian Caliphate Surya Valliappan Krishna – Abstract The argument that South Asia in general and India in particular would maintain its insularity from the Islamic State’s influence is delusional. The threat for India is real and could be far more lethal than familiar Islamist […]