The Editors - Himal Southasian (Page 139)

Chain Reaction

After the first shell-shocked moment following news of India's nuclear tests, a heated debate began in Pakistan on whether or not there would or should be a '

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1998

The Indo-Pak Bomb

Funnily enough, the India/Pakistan nuclear tests of May 1998 were triggered by a Tamil lady from India's south. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, humiliated by a mere

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1998

Aborminably yours

Nothing has brought out the patrilineal pecking order of South Asians more vividly in recent years than control over the remote control during the World Cup. It is the modern

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1998

Round-up of regional news

Buddha and the Bomb India certainly did not choose an auspicious day for its 11 May nuclear tests at least as far as its 69-percent Buddhist neighbour, Sri Lanka, was

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 1998

Protecting journalists by committee Oppressive governments and terrorist organisations have a propensity to confuse the truth with bad news and to further confuse the news with the messenger. They labour

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Constitutional iceberg

Not all, but some of the problems of the nascent Nepali democracy seem directly linked to the Constitution which was drafted over the course of 1990 under the aegis of

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Brief

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based organisation founded in 1981 and backed by heavyweights of American journalism, has been keeping public tabs on the effects of this delusion

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Updates from the last months issue

A real dam in Pakistan Dams are no stuff of fantasia. Between the charged debates for and against high dams (Himal, March 1998), they continue to be built and are

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Age of aquarius

When Saturn moved to the house of Aries after 30 years at 1.27 pm on 17 April 1998, some politicians from both the ruling and opposition parties in Sri

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Happy new years

On 13 April, the holy northern Indian town of Haridwar saw a Puma Maha Kumbh, a gigantic religious mela of a crore devotees crowding to take a dip in the

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Round-up of regional news

Inside Rao What do you do when you are out of power, by now four times removed from the prime ministership of India and twice removed from the presidency of

By The Editors

/ 1 Apr 1998

Atal’s oddity

If india was looking towards the general elections to clear some of the uncertainties that cloud the political horizon, it could not have been more baffled. The single largest party

By The Editors

/ 1 Apr 1998