There is never a dull moment in the Pakistan polity, with what the erudite call "fissiparous tendencies" erupting all over all the time. This was as true during
A war that has been too long in the waging gets whittled down to cold statistics about the dead. Over 50,000 killed in 15 years: that´s the Tamil-Sinhala
There is an ufolding technological tragedy in the Subcontinent which has its source in our inability to use new information technology because of the language barrier. This retards social and
Guns and roses
Peace seemed to be at hand at the open-air stadium in Kagrachchary district in early February when, in the morning sunshine, regulars from the Shanti Bahini laid
Sri Lanka´s best-known cartoonist, Wijesoma, neatly encapsulated what 50 years of Independence has meant for his homeland in a savagely effective cartoon published in the run-up to the 4
Chaudhary Rehmat Ali was a teacher employed by the Mazaris, a feudal family of Punjab, and was a one-man crusade for Muslim homelands. He had a dozen carved out of
Recently, a Lahore journalist was vehement in denying that Jinnah had anything to do with his daughter Dina Jinnah after she married a Parsiturned-Christian, Neville Wadia. Following the expected lines
Diana Hayden of India is the new Miss World. A veritable triumph of packaging, say some. A little dentistry, a little cosmetic surgery, rigorous workouts at a gym, a top-class
Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has declared that she will begin her movement to dislodge Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League after the Eid festival
There was a time, until the mid-1980s, when Bhutan was thought by many to be an exemplar of a multi-ethnic nation at peace with itself. The country´s three communities