The recent case of American Indologist Wendy Doniger's book The Hindus: An Alternative History (2009) being withdrawn by Penguin India and committed to pulping is another example of
Southasia seems to be a much safer place for journalists. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), only three journalists were jailed in the region in 2013 out of
It seems that the financial situation at the BBC is even direr than earlier presumed. In early November, Chhetria Patrakar was baffled and dismayed – still is – to find that the
According to more US diplomatic cables, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kumari Mayawati is a 'paranoid … egomaniac' obsessed with becoming prime minister, and with a very particular brand of
Afghanistan now has the honour of being the first country of the region to have its own remake of The Office, the hit UK TV series that has inspired copycat
In a recent far-from-usual meeting with the press held in New Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh complained that 'at least 25 percent of Bangladeshis swear by Jamaat-e-Islami' – Bangladesh&
Arundhati Roy is in trouble (yes, again). Much has been said, printed, ranted and blogged about her supposedly seditious (oooooh!) statements in Kashmir in October. While the Indian media went
News channels in Pakistan really need to get their fact-checking departments in order – and they need to stop the spooks of the country from playing with the citizenry's
Pakistan's health secretary, Khushnood Lashari, made an astounding proclamation recently: no one was allowed to conduct medical relief operations in flood-hit Jacobabad (in Sindh), because – wait for it!
