It was perhaps the ghastliest news of the year. On 3 December, newspapers in Pakistan went to town about the killings of around 100 children by a sodomite. The news
Fringe extremists on both sides of the India-Pakistan border are feeding off each other to kill, maim and brutalise their people in the name of religion.
It must be one
The Other Side of Silence
by Urvashi Butalia
Viking, New Delhi, 1998
Dayawanti/Ayesha could easily be a character out of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. So could her son
The Year That Was
edited by Ishrat Firdousi
Bantu Prahashan, Dhaka, 1996
Truth destroys all rosy notions of what a remembered war should be. War becomes a time where the
Two South Asian women journalists who set new standards of professionalism and lived courageous lives died in March.
Razia Bhatti, trail-blazing Pakistani editor, died of a brain haemmorhage in Karachi
A cantonment mentality, and fear of India keep the Pakistan military´s coffers full
Two years ago, when India´s former Chief of Army Staff General K. Sunderji met with
