In Calcutta, the very mention of the Sundarban, the massive mangrove forest that straddles the India-Bangladesh frontier, ignites immediate conversations about a broad range of wildlife – the Royal Bengal Tiger,
Even as Southasians watched in disbelief the crossborder chase of Amit Kumar, the disgraced transplant doctor, as he fled from his Gurgaon office to the Chitwan jungles of southern Nepal
There are two specific strategies at work in India's queer-rights movement. On the one hand is an attempt to create and increase the social and cultural visibility of
Nepal was recently witness to a victory of sorts for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and inter-sex (LGBTI) communities. It was an undeniably historic day on 21 December 2007, when
The discussion of sexual desire as sexual 'identity' in LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) intellectual and activist circles is something that is argued with rather than argued about.
In 2004, the (now defunct) United Nations Human Rights Commission used its 60th session to debate a resolution that had been tabled the previous year by Brazil on "Human
East of the Bangladesh border with West Bengal, 26 kilometres from Dinajpur, villagers in Khodshippur and Ratnur are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. Starting on 26 January,
Following an action- and tragedy-packed 2007, the new year began in Pakistan with unprecedented uncertainty surrounding the coming elections. All eyes were on 18 February, the day that ex-general-cum-civilian-president Pervez
Life was hard enough for journalists in Pakistan before the police began registering cases against them. According to reports, in less than a month the police in Sindh registered cases
Southasian generals nowadays seem to be present more in government secretariats than in barracks. And they are there not to listen to elected civilian bosses, but to displace them, or,
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Bus sans passengers
The Nepal state-owned Sajha Yatayat resumed its Kathmandu-Lhasa bus service from 1 January, though the passengers were less than excited. In fact there were no
Conspiracy theories about who killed Benazir Bhutto abound, which have only been further fuelled by Pervez Musharraf's feeble attempts to downplay the obvious security lapse that took place.
