The Editors - Himal Southasian (Page 142)

Round-up of regional news

Canada Chalo "Go West, young man!" advised someone once. It wasn't meant for them, but Pakistanis, young and old alike, seem to have taken this counsel

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 1997

Migrants, refugees and the region

There are some refugee issue that have more or less solved themselves through sheer passage of time. indu, Muslim and Sikh refugees created by Partition have had to come to

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1997

MQM by any other name

The Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced on 26 July that it was changing its name to Mutahida Qaumi Mahaz (United National Movement). The proposal is not new. It was first

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1997

Tears, but no protests

A strange element in Sri Lanka´s long-drawn civil war, now in its fourteenth year, is that despite the blood that has been shed and the limbs that have been

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1997

Fifty Something

Now that the breathless television extravaganza of the 50th anniversary of Independence of India and Pakistan is over, we can perhaps take a more sober look at the past half-century.

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1997

Mediafile

Mr Kher's Bengali channel is going to be called SAARC TV. Now, either he is planning to go South Asian before too long, or he has overreached for

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1997

Round-up of regional news

Producing Women After three decades of television in India, women have finally begun to enter the production arena in a big way. They are no longer just pretty faces on

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1997

Alumni SG´s

The four past secretaries general of SAARC include Abul Ahsan from Bangladesh, followed by Kant Kishore Bhargava from India, Ibrahim Hussain Zaki from the Maldives and Yadav Kant Silwal from

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1997

Round-up of regional news

Buddha Brouhaha It was a classic case of much ado about nothing. An exhibition of Buddha´s relics preserved in India was jointly organised by New Delhi´s National Museum

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1997

Lankan Aphrodisiac

Carl Muller talks to Lankan journalist and poet Afdhel Aziz about his critics, his upcoming books and dinner parties at the end of the world. How do you cope with

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1997

Himalayan Treasure

If the best of a commodity happens to come from the Himalaya, should it trade more cheaply in world markets than lesser brands simply because it is South Asian? Despite

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1997

Doom and gloom

If observers have been concerned about the squabbling parties and the resultant political downturn in Nepal, take a look at its economy. With the financial year coming to a close

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1997