The Editors - Himal Southasian (Page 110)

Peasant surprise

The United Progressive Alliance government's unprecedented move to waive INR 600 billion in debt owed by an estimated 40 million small and marginal farmers is a development that,

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/ 1 Apr 2008

Yes to country, no to president

Pakistan now has a sovereign Parliament in place. The newly elected members have taken their oaths under the 1973 Constitution, and have also elected, by two-thirds majority, a new speaker

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/ 1 Apr 2008

Infantilising refugees amidst manufactured multiculturalism

What accompanies this movement is a complete loss of that primary sense of belonging included as the bedrock of human-rights guarantees: citizenship. In the context of the Holocaust in Europe,

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/ 1 Apr 2008

Tibits from the region

Questioning the accuracy of an editorial in the weekly Nayen, published from Ramechhap in eastern Nepal, Maoist cadres recently threatened to break the legs and spine of the paper'

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/ 1 Apr 2008

Round-up of regional news

TIBET Battle of the tongues In the spirit of International Mother Language Day, on 21 February the Free Tibet Campaign called on China to pass legislation that would make Tibetan

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/ 1 Apr 2008

Globalisation sans development

Globalisation and Development by Sunanda Sen National Book Trust, 2007 "The United States completely rejects," the US representative to the Asia Development Bank imperiously stated in 1985, "

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/ 1 Apr 2008

Force speaks

Rambo directed by Sylvester Stallone Millennium Films, 2008 "I think there is a story that needs to be told," Sylvester Stallone recently said of his latest movie. But

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/ 1 Apr 2008

Malaysian makkal sakthi

When activists with the Hindu Rights Action Front (Hindraf) marched on the streets of Kuala Lumpur on 25 November 2007, hoping to highlight the plight of the poorer sections of

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/ 1 Apr 2008

Twenty Years On

Definition kills, say some, but without it we are lost jokers, roaming astray through a deck of numberless cards. A set of rules is necessary for any game, of course,

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/ 1 Apr 2008

Tibets second uprising

March has always been a tense time in Tibet. This year, however, what could have been just another demonstration by a group of monks in Lhasa on 10 March 2008

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/ 1 Apr 2008

A ‘dictator’ deposed

Having reigned as the 'Dictator of Darjeeling' for two decades, Subash Ghisingh surely could not have imagined a more ignominious ouster: a popular uprising that would no longer

By The Editors

/ 1 Apr 2008

The limits of electoral saffron

Following the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral successes in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh during the recent assembly polls, India's national press seems intent on trying to impress

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 2008