Vigilance, Community Style, not Vigilantism

Partha Desikan

The Hindu has published a feature article today by Professor Sreeram Chaulia of International Affairs Department, Maxwell Center, Syracuse University, USA, on the need for reviving and strengthening traditional techniques of protecting a neighborhood or community, which have tended to disappear in the Indian scene, with more and more support being available for a person's privacy than for satisfying his neighbor's curiosity.

http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/30/stories/2008113054741300.htm

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Professor Chaulia has authored other articles too on the scourge of international terrorism and his ideas for containing it.