The Editors - Himal Southasian (Page 130)

AIR ROUTE V500

Just what is holding things up in the resumption of overflight rights for Indian and Pakistani airliners over each other's territories? We can see no conceivable reason for

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 2002

THE LIMITS OF ADULATION

Have you noticed? The gun-toting Osama bin Laden has pushed the peaceable Dalai Lama into deep background. The 'Tibet cause' is presently in the doldrums as, next door,

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 2002

Between Regionalism and the Nation-State

THE HIMAL ROUNDTABLE ON RE-CONCEPTUALISING SOUTH ASIA (18-19 NOVEMBER 2001) Why do the people of South Asia, who constitute more than one-fifth of all humanity, remain so overwhelmingly, materially poor?

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 2002

NEPAL: THE YEAR OF MASSACRES, ROYAL AND OTHERWISE

The year 2001 was the most turmoil-ridden in Nepal's modern history, and arguably in its entire two centuries as a nation-state. The week preceding the new year was

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 2002

Afghanistan’s Ethnic Groups

Now that the bombing is over and Osama and Omar have evacuated themselves, Afghanistan will once again recede from our mindset. But we still do not know Afghanistan. In an

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 2002

The growing pains of South Asia’s children

Under-5 mortality rate Seven Million South Asian r children under the age of five died in 1990. In 2000 the figure had declined to about 3 million. However, the overall

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 2002

SHANGRILA NO MORE, SHANGRILA, STILL

Nepal is little understood by outsiders because it was not colonised — the reason why there was not enough written about it till the mid-20th century. The country is also a

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 2001

SHAKE HANDS

The last SAARC summit was cancelled at India's behest because Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee did not want to shake hands with General Pervez Musharraf, who had just

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 2001

SAARC SANS TERRORISM

After many a hiccup, the SAARC summit scheduled for 4-6 January will finally happen at a difficult time in the entire region's history. There is an epic war

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 2001

The globalisation of Hypocrisy

Call this the double standards decade, or century, or millennium. Or call it an unrecognizable transformation of regional geo-politics post-11 September. For decades, India spoke loftily from the United Nations

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 2001

Why not to fear a nuclear war?

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the cold war between the US and the USSR was such that if the former launched a nuke-mounted missile, Soviet satellites were capable of

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 2001

MONSOON POLITICAL REVIEW

Politics in South Asia, as the summer rains end, presents a dismal picture of turmoil. In Bangladesh, impending general election has unleashed a ferocious struggle between the two main political

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 2001