Caption: Baloch bandolier and jutis.:
Image: Massoud Ansari
For the past two years, the eerie silences in the rugged expanses of Balochistan have been shattered by the screams and thuds
The passion for taking Bangladesh back from the grip of near-self-immolation was in evidence at the premier of a documentary called Deshantori (The Migrant), in London in early February. Currently
Selections from New Left Review:
I: The Global Stage
II: Powers
III: Front Lines
IV: Other Worlds
edited by Susan Watkins
Seagull Books, 2006
Since its inception in 1960, the
Inhaling the Mahatma
by Christopher Kremmer
Fourth Estate, 2006
There must be something about the Subcontinent that turns the most well-intentioned reportage into 'intensely personal stories'. An examination
If you were to go by the international headlines, the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict appears to engage only the two main communities, the Sinhalese and the Tamils. Yet when the
The art of Nepal – a belated, blunt and sometimes obscene review of books on the subject. The Kathmandu Valley, it was said back in the 1950s when Nepal opened its
Shipping restarted (India/Pakistan)
In mid-December, India and Pakistan signed a revised protocol that restored an important cargo-shipping option between the two countries. Now, for the first time in 30
It had seemed that the ULFA wanted the manifesto to be the starting point for talks with the central government, and for the first time a militant outfit was spelling
The unslain demons of Bangladesh's politics have returned to haunt a democracy that the small Southasian state has struggled to preserve for nearly two decades. On 22 January,
A controversial cover of The Economist last year asked, with not much self-reflexive irony, "Who killed thenewspaper?" The suggestion of death seems, in hindsight, grossly exaggerated. Asia Media
It's a village surrounded by villas. Nithari. A "well-concealed eyesore", according to one newspaper account. It is inhabited by migrant labourers, some employed as domestic servants
