The Editors - Himal Southasian (Page 138)

Host as hostage

The torrential rain in Colombo preceding the SAARC summit and the gloomy skies visible through it reflected the general mood. Colombo was host to the summit but was not a

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1998

We,the third force

When former Pakistan president Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari launched a new political party in Lahore on 14 August, the Independence Day, it was widely seen as an attempt to provide

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1998

Round-up of regional news

Tully crosses the Bridge As soon as I heard about the opening of the Jamuna Bridge, I said to myself, I want to be there. I had been a witness

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Morning after

The mood in Pakistan changed swiftly following the nuclear tests, from what was dubbed as "euphoria" into today´s uncertainty and fear, which have escalated as the extent

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Round-up of regional news

The north-west, once the market garden of Calcutta, will be able to send its produce to the great cities of Bangladesh. Those wanting to travel quickly from east to west

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Mumbai

"Don't worry. If they push you out, they also pull you in." Bombay (now officially Mumbai) is a city with an identity crisis; a city ex-periencing

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

“I should never have left Patna.”

Excerpts from an interview of Akhtar Hameed Khan taken by Dhaka features service NewsNetwork. The interviewers write: "Begum Akhtar Hameed Khan came and served us tea and snacks herself.

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Tibet-free

Dharamsala had it coming, obviously. The swing of the media pendulum is vicious and whatever is lionised gets trashed, sooner or later. With the surfeit of Hollywood productions and personalities

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Fair is foul

It would have been a revolutionary bill and a first for this part of the world. But whoever heard of parliamentarians voluntarily giving up their privileges? The Women´s Bill,

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Round-up of regional news

National identity on the tarmac Stealing the show from Pakistan's nuclear scientists in the run-up to the revenge blasts in Chagai was never going to be easy. But

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1998

Summer of 2004

It is the summer of 2004 – along and typically sweltering summer in the Subcontinent. A summer made even more unbearable by the inability of Asia's newest nuclear powers

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1998

Critical mass

The heat wave had the country in its grip. The usual problems of no water and no electricity were attendant. Fifty years into independence and every Indian knows that even

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1998