Bangladesh's political orchestra is reaching a crescendo, at least for this passage. What comes next may be a long, deafening silence. As the two political dynasties were made
Italian journalists are more equal than Afghan journalists, it seems, for the Kabul government, for Taliban extremists, and even for the International Federation of Journalists. In early March, a kidnapped
When Beijing heralded the opening of the new Qinghai-Lhasa train line in early July last year, Tibetans, environmentalists and human-rights activists across the globe worried in anticipation of the hoards
Across the ideological spectrum, ruling political outfits in India's north and east are in trouble. If the Congress party is struggling to recover from a string of electoral
Over the past decade, globalisation and Asia's impressive economic performance, driven mainly by strong GDP growth in China and India, have created an unprecedented environment for the growth
History is a slaughterhouse
– G W F Hegel
But for the suppression of Communist International documents from the post-Lenin years, the subsequent series of splits and divisions among the world&
For the past four decades, the indigenous Santhals of Jaduguda, in Jharkhand's Singhbhum District, have lived in the massive shadow of the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL)
The Colombo government's new initiative to resettle displaced Sri Lankans has not only angered many of the people it is targeted to serve, but also fails to address
Since late January, the sleepy, custom-built capital of Pakistan has seen a spate of suicide bombings. What was once the safest haven in a conflict-prone political and social zone is
South and Southeast Asia once enjoyed close trade relations, which ultimately helped to lay the foundations of modern culture and society throughout the mainland and island chains of the latter.
Just a stone's throw from the sedate, tree-lined, high-end New Delhi neighbourhood of Nizamuddin East is a patch of Old Delhi – one of the places along the Jamuna
