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Recently, there were two very important events which showed that the Western influence has declined in a big way.  From G-7 to G-8 and now the emergence of G-20, tells us how the power is shifting from the developed Western countries to the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Lain America.  The Western domination of the last two centuries is coming to an end.  The shift in the balance of power is so swift that many people are surprised, even shocked.

Since 1960s, India has been hosting over 100,000 Tibetan refugees and some 50,000 Buddhist Chakma
refugees from Chittagong hill tracts in Bangladesh

From a population displacement perspective, South Asian region has a unique history. ere, people have been pushed beyond their borders as a result of war or they have left their country of origin on ethnic, racial, ideological or religious grounds.

Subsequently, migrations have taken place for environmental or developmental reasons as well.

The States of India and Pakistan witnessed massive refugee movements from the time of independence itself. After the 1947 partition, 7.5 million Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan crossed over to India and 7.2 million Muslim refugees from India crossed to Pakistan. It was the largest recorded refugee movement in history.

Some youngsters migrated from Andhra Pradesh organised the Condolence meeting due to sad, untimely and sudden demise of their beloved Chief Minister YSR.

Madhav Kumar Nepal’s maiden visit to India from August 18 to August 22 since taking over as Prime Minister of Nepal just three months ago was not only substantive by all measures but also reflected New Delhi’s resolve to remain engaged with its Himalayan neighbour despite the latter’s political turmoil clouding its future.

It was the defeat in Afghanistan which led to the collapse of the Soviet Empire.  Is history going to repeat itself and America is going to face the same fate in Afghanistan?  At this point it looks very likely that the American fate is not going to be any different than Russias fate.  Another question can be asked is that why Afghanistan is different than Iraq?  Why a defeat in Afghanistan is going to have much more impact than the defeat in Iraq?  Iraq was never a mainstream Muslim country.  Iraq was led by the Baathist party which was a socialist party rather than a fundamentalist Islamic party.  Al Qaida entered the conflict later, after the defeat of Saddam Hussein.  Al Qaida is primarily based in the Sunni Muslims who are a minority in Iraq.