The subterfuge is over. It has now become clear that Bangladesh is under the control of an autocratic military regime. After three months of pretending that it had little to
Among the ceremonial events that marked the opening of the 14th SAARC Summit in Delhi in early April, was the flagging-off of a car rally. Beginning two weeks earlier in
The story of democratic transition in Southasia is incomplete. Although all members of SAARC possess autonomous electoral-management institutions or election commissions, there have been notably few investigations into strategies used
On 7 February this year, Bhutan's new king, Oxford-educated Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, began a six-day visit to India, marking his debut on the world stage two months
On a hot day last August, I landed in Lahore on a flight from London. Blaring headlines were announcing that Nawab Akbar Bugti, known as the 'Tiger of Balochistan&
A full-bodied treatment of a story of physical passion – and such stories, great ones even, are not lacking in our literature – is unthinkable on the Indian screen … The scenes of
Nearly 150 years ago began an agonising saga of migration from the Bhojpur region of India. With Britain actively engaged in agriculture in colonies across the world, there was a
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A decades-old injustice was reopened recently when hundreds of people in Tripura began returning to their former lands, which had been flooded during the
Despite the hype over the US-led 'war on terror', overwhelming global concern continues to be centred on poverty. The persistence of poverty in large parts of the world
Sixty-year-old Egamabaram Palaniraja, the owner of Mythili Jewellers in the heart of Colombo, went missing on 12 September last year, along with his 23-year-old son Balasaravanan and employee, Ganesan Muhundan.
Last December, more than 1500 people living along the Burmese border in Manipur suddenly began leaving their villages, in flight from a counter-insurgency operation by the Indian Army against cadres
Autumn of 1977. A 22-year-old studying law in Delhi University took the Wagah-Attari route – then a series of super-fast dilapidated buses – through Lahore, Peshawar, Khyber and Jalalabad, to arrive in
