The growing number of South Asian women who challenge traditional racial or gender roles—and write about them—now includes one more North America-based author. Bombay-bom California resident Ginu Kamani
Alms Race: The Subcontinent of Sub Saharan Asia
March 1996
Tired of the Bickering. The Rand Corporation, the conservative US think tank, too, thinks that the India-Pakistan enmity is costly.
Afghanistan´s child mortality rate is second from the bottom, only Sierra Leone´s is worse. A Nepali woman is more likely to die at childbirth than a woman in
South Asia is just not prepared to enter the 21st century. It does not invest enough in its people.
The rest of the world is heading towards peace and prosperity,
We South Asians are in the horns of a conundrum. Our society thrives in contradiction, and this subject deserves a chhota dekko.
Here we have a rich and vibrant culture
I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the suffering of millions, and yet, if
DHAKA – "Nobody visits Bangladesh, not even Bangladeshis," is a common refrain. Bangladesh has the dubious honour of being the only South Asian country not mentioned in any serious
WAGAH – Midway between the two great cities of the Punjab, Amritsar and Lahore, lies the border crossing of Wagah, which is open only to foreign nationals. Indians and Pakistanis have
