The Editors - Himal Southasian (Page 131)

SAD COUNTRY

Beautiful but tragic places make for good poetry. This is Ondaatje country in Colombo's Welawatte neighbourhood, where a small river meets the sea, where Pablo Neruda stayed for

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 2001

SOUTH ASIA AND THE SUMMITEERS

When the Indian prime minister and the Pakistani generalissimo met to talk in Agra, the leaders, spin-managers and commentators on both sides forgot one critical point: that both countries are

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 2001

A NOT-SO-DISCREET OPERATION SANSKRIT

One of the first things that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government embarked on when it came to power was to 'rectify' the various institutional anomalies

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2001

Mediafile

India used to be the land of fakirs, snake charmers and the like for Western media. Now they have discovered monkeys. Yes, suddenly, the Monkey Menace of New Delhi is

By The Editors

/ 1 Apr 2001

Dark Clouds Behind the Silver Lining?

For the first time since Bhutanese refugees set foot on Nepali soil exactly a decade ago, a group of Bhutanese officials drove into the refugee camps in Jhapa and Morang

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 2001

Killings on Highway 31

Even in the perspective of the Subcontinent's violent Northeast, which provides such fertile soil for militancy, there must be more than one eyebrow raised at the recent killing

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 2001

Questions of location

Meena Alexander in conversation with Prem Poddar PP: You've described yourself as a no-nation woman in your last collection The Shock of Arrival, and to talk about location

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 2001

Riots, rumours and refugees

Even as the 10th round of ministerial level talks to resolve the decade-long refugee dispute between Nepal and Bhutan moved towards an encouraging consensus, Nepal's peace was shattered

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 2001

FRIENDS AND FOES

India's ongoing attempt to establish a "working relationship" with the Burmese junta has suffered from some rather bad timing recently. The Indian home secretary was in

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 2000

She Said, He Said

Fact is, Hasina gives a hoot about the who or the how of running Pakistan. She is intensely focussed on the trial of her family's killers—her family

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 2000

The Concorde and the nuclear reactor

On 25 July 2000, an Air France Concorde bound for New York crashed in flames shortly after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris killing all its passengers. Officials

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 2000

KITCHEN

The kitchen is a laboratory, a prison, an anti-thesis of dream. It is colour and pain: lime juice on wounds and hard black nouns hiding like poisonous ants beneath every

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 2000