The Editors - Himal Southasian (Page 123)

Befriending the junta

Burma is the starkest example of a closed society in Southasia. An oppressive regime continues to hold sway over the country. Respect for human rights is, for all purposes, an

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 2007

Waiting for neighbourhood gas

Thousands of years ago, in the historic silk-route city of Baku on the banks of the Caspian Sea, ancients worshipped a phenomenon they could hardly comprehend: pillars of fire leaping

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 2007

Hunting for rebels, looking for peace

Image: AP Assam is bleeding. In the first week of January, armed with Kalashnikovs and other weaponry, rebels of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) carried out a series

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 2007

Constitutional reform for the republic of Sri Lanka

Two cabinet ministers flanked Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse when he met visiting Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee in mid-January. One was Mukherjee's counterpart Mangala Samaraweera. The other

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 2007

Constitutional reform for the republic of Sri Lanka

Bal, Raj and Uddhav

In the Shiv Sena's traditional stronghold, many are excited about the breakaway formation headed by Bal Thackeray's nephew Raj – even if they don't know

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 2007

Tidbits of the region’s media

"A BUTTON for your belly", announced the style section of New York magazine, and displayed the Navel Bindi Bliss (NBB) in action. Apparently coming hot on the heels

By The Editors

/ 9 Nov 2006

Shipping out?

It seems serious, though you can never quite tell about this sort of thing. Certainly the early October announcement by the United States that it is willing to take in

By The Editors

/ 9 Nov 2006

Voices

The quest for paradise often ends abruptly when tourists end up with cowdung on their clothes, writes David Nicholson-Lord, author of The. Greening of the Cities (Routledge), in The Nation.

By The Editors

/ 9 Nov 2006

The ‘politicalisation’ of the Maobaadi

There was a time when the rebellion of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) used to be compared to the predecessor insurgency of the Sendero Luminso (Shining Path) in Peru,

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 2006

Havana breakthrough

Manmohan Singh has effected a fundamental shift in India's Pakistan policy. From consistently viewing the entire Pakistani state as the perpetrator of terrorism, New Delhi has explicitly recognised

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 2006

Hope amidst alarm

Nepal not only looks like it is in turmoil, it is in turmoil. The anarchy in the country is near-total, with the Maoists having the run of the countryside and

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 2006

From low-intensity to ‘limited’ war

For the past 10 months Sri Lanka has been in the throes of an undeclared war, with neither the government nor the LTTE prepared to take responsibility before the people

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 2006