The Editors - Himal Southasian (Page 141)

Wounded Tigers

Brokers are jumping off hotel balconies in Hong Kong. In Thailand, the government has put out a mental health alert. Suicide hotline switchboards are jammed in Korea. Currencies have become

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 1998

“You are free to go to your temples, You are free to go to your mosques”

On the eve of Independence, on 11 August 1947, the Quaid-e-Azam addressed the First Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, embodying the fundamental principles which had impelled the creation of the country.

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 1998

Round-up of regional news

Hair-raising amendment In recent months, before the announcement of elections, New Delhi saw frenzied debate over the Women's Representation Bill – proposals for 50 percent, 33 percent, 25 percent

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

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This domain name is not controlled by the Pakistan government. The maulanas are getting wise to it, the militants are catching on, the porn-freaks love it, the movers and shakers

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan

The world´s largest democracy, whatever may be its quality, is up for elections again. The fallout of the Jain Commission report brought down the government of I.K. Gujral,

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

The prime ego

The political crisis that engulfed Pakistan in November-December overshadowed all other matters in this country for weeks on end. Some saw it as a rank tussle for power between the

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

Video Nights in Thimphu

As recently as the late 70s, it was possible for the Berkeley professor Leo Rose to write in his Politics of Bhutan that most families had as much land at

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

RAW WOUND

The leaking of the "interim report" of Justice M.C. Jain, who constituted the one-man commission to investigate the death of Rajiv Gandhi, has suddenly changed the course

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

The Jury Statement

This is a shortened version of the more detailed report made to Film South Asia ´97 by the Festival Jury, which comprised of noted filmmaker Pankaj Butalia from Delhi; Colombo-based

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 1997

King and Country

While the aloofness from the public behind dark glasses – the signature of King Mahendra – has long been abandoned by his son King Birendra, his advisers over at the Narayanhiti Royal

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 1997

Accountability For All

By mid-December 1997, Pakistani investigators must prove that the money in four Swiss bank accounts frozen in September by the Swiss government, was misappropriated by Benazir Bhutto from the government

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 1997

Hartal in the Time of War

The general elections held last year merely changed the seats of the belligerent parties and not the state of political war within Bangladesh. For the moment, the political tension in

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 1997