It is never easy being Sri Lanka's president. The island's chief executive has to deal with a seemingly intractable civil war, a faltering foreign-aid-dependant economy and
As a military-backed interim government that suspended Bangladesh’s January elections mounts a massive anti-corruption crackdown under a state of emergency, Dhaka’s wealthy are feverishly abandoning luxury pets and toys that were once symbols of their power and opulence.
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The trial of U Thein Zan, a 65-year-old retired Burmese sailor who was arrested for satirising government newspapers in early March, was deferred to the end of
What first propelled you to study the Indus script?
Early in the 1960s, I began working on the cave inscriptions of Tamil Nadu. They are the earliest records of not
I first met the Tibetan artist Gadé (transliterated as dga' bde) on a cold November day in 1994. After showing me around the Fine Arts Department of Tibet University,
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South Indians for Nepal, tourists for Southasia
The Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), eager to benefit from the thus-far little-tapped market of South India, recently mobilised a promotional campaign targeting
There is good news from Kashmir. The diligent reader of the Indian national press will be informed that wildlife poaching is down to almost nil. This is thanks to arms
For outside observers, the picture currently emerging from Nepal seems rather depressing: the continuing ill-health of 85-year-old Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala; the reluctance of the Nepali Congress and the
What is now called the Singur controversy was sparked off by the decision of the West Bengal government to acquire 997 acres (affecting approximately 12,000 owners) of agricultural land,
In contrast to the sometimes difficult political relations between India and Sri Lanka, economic ties between the two have expanded impressively in recent years. Despite a number of problems, the
As would be expected, the conventional thinking on Southasian inter-state relations is predominantly bilateral in nature. As such, readers should be unsurprised by the following exchange, which took place on
