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Powerless in Sri Lanka May 1996 Social Engineering by the Clock In late May, Sri Lanka decided to adjust its clock forward by one hour from midnight in late May

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 1996

A MANDATE FOR FEDERALISM?

The beginning of June in India saw the beginning of a unique experiment: for the first time in its history, a broad-based 13-party coalition of disparate elements took over the

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 1996

BACK TO THE DARK AGE

Cheap power was touted as the prime attraction of Sri Lanka´s brave adventure to liberalise its economy 20 years ago when the country became the first South Asian to

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 1996

Fear and Despair in Kabul

Afghans have known nothing but awar for the past 17 years. They have always been afraid—afraid of the Afghan secret police, of the Soviets, of the mujahideen, of land

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 1996

HATE THY NEIGHBOUR

Some of the more promising election-time pitches in the SAARC countries are linked to the matter of 'bad neighbour' rather than domestic issues. In India, the Bharatiya Janata

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 1996

Tidbits of region’s media

MR NICE GUY Who was the most written-about man in the Southern Hemisphere for a couple of weeks in May 1990? Why, Atal Bihari Vaj- payee, of course. All Asian

By The Editors

/ 31 May 1996

Fear and Despair in Kabul

Maliha is 19 years old, a child of war. She has known little but sorrow, pain and fear. Three years ago, a rocket landed on her family´s house in

By The Editors

/ 31 May 1996

Beginning of the end?

A war weary population has demonstrated a determination to stand up to LTTE President Chandrika Kumaratunga chose her words carefully when she told a Colombo May Day rally that Sri

By The Editors

/ 30 May 1996

Sex worker myths

How can it be proper that Bombay (its men and economy) takes maximum advantage of poor women driven to prostitution and then dump them as soon as they are seen

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1996

Repressive social norms and traditions continue to stand in the way of Pakistani women´s rights and liberties, even those guaranteed by the Constitution. And when narrow-minded interpretations of religion

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1996

Cities of Sub-Saharan Asia

The last of the great United Nations conferences is upon us: the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Istanbul, 3-14 June). It follows on the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1996

President’s rule

Democracy has been shortchanged with a system of governance which welcomes loud and corrupt and keeps the intelligent and the honest at bay Never in the history of independent India

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1996