The Editors - Himal Southasian (Page 144)

Tamils and Lhotshampas

The case of "up-country Tamils" of Sri Lanka, highlighted in a recent article in The Hindu by V. Suryanarayan of the University of Madras, suggests some interesting possible

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 1997

The fifty-year test

Two score and ten years ago, India´s founding fathers gave the country a parliamentary democracy with a fine system of checks and balances. Half a century into freedom and

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 1997

Round-up of regional news

Indian Pakistani Bhai Bhai (at least with this group) A hundred and sixty-seven Pakistanis arrived in Calcutta in late December for the Third Joint Convention of Pakistan-India People´s Forum

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/ 1 Mar 1997

“Ours is certainly a democratic system…”

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom rules his atoll nation with a firm hand, but has been credited with bringing unprecedented prosperity to his 250,000 subjects. Today, the Maldives has the best

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 1997

South South Asia

Forty-five minutes on a flight out of Madras, the southern tip of India comes into view below the right wing. On the other side, a yellow sliver of land snakes

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/ 1 Mar 1997

Mary and Human Liberation

Logos Vol 29 Nos 1 & 2, March/July 1990 Centre for Society and Religion, Colombo. Construct of Traditional Catholic Theology The development of theology concerning Mary—or of Manology—

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/ 1 Mar 1997

A New Plan for the Colombo Plan

After suffering a near-death experience, the Colombo Plan is in the throes of a Japanese-initiated rejuvenation effort. The goal: to turn the organisation into a pan-Asian agency that can help

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 1997

Made In Nepal, Exported to India

The new Indo-Nepal trade treaty signed on 4 December 1996 will allow, for the first time, goods manufactured in Nepal access to the Indian market free of custom duties. The

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1997

Round-up of regional news

16,000 and Counting… A fact sheet on the status of victims of the Bhopal Gas Disaster of December 1996 reminds one of the continuing horror of that singular event.

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/ 1 Jan 1997

Unwelcome millennium

H.Y. Sharada Prasad, one-time advisor to Indira Gandhi and now a New Delhi elder, had this to say of the millennium when asked to open a South Asia media

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/ 1 Jan 1997

Care Takers

Democratic decay in most countries in South Asia has suddenly made it fashionable once more to say some pretty (politically) incorrect things in public. Things like: maybe things were better

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1997

On His Holiness’ Secret Service

Himal South Asia had presented a report in its September edition on the accusations and counter-accusations between the Dalai Lama ´camp´ and the Shugden Supporters Community (SSC), a Buddhist group

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1997