The India-Pakistan 'Composite Dialogue'
Bentota, Sri Lanka
September 2004
Witnessing history: The kernel of Kashmir
By A G Noorani
This term, the 'composite-dialogue', is a rather
The question of Kashmir
Istanbul, Turkey
2-3 December 2005
Panos South Asia organised a 'media retreat' in Istanbul on 2-3 December 2005 to discuss critical issues related to
PARTICIPANTS
The national-security state
Aitzaz Ahsan, former Interior Minister, the Pakistan People's Party
The impact of fundamentalist groups on policy
Bharat Bhushan, editor, Delhi, The Telegraph
29-30 OCTOBER 2007, SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA
PARTICIPANTS
RESOURCE PERSONS
A G Noorani, columnist
Shamshad Ahmad, former foreign secretary of Pakistan
EDITORS
Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, editor of the Kashmir Times
Beena
Between two worlds
Somalee Banerjee
One of Mirza Ghalib's ghazals has a line that poignantly captures the dilemma of the Southasian migrant. 'Imaan mujhe roke hai to
Ben Campbell is an anthropologist with the University of Durham and a longtime visitor to Nepal. In 2007, he spent time talking with and filming villagers living in the harsh
INDIA
To the pole!
India launched its first-ever scientific research mission to the South Pole in November. A team of eight scientists from the Goa-based National Centre for Antarctic and
After two decades of refusing to honour the results of the last elections, held back in 1990, the recent electoral exercise in Burma gave plenty of lead-up time for long-suffering
It is a striking phenomenon, but also a fairly well-engrained one. When they migrate overseas, many first-generation Southasians become more overtly nationalistic than their homebound friends and families, probably as
Seminar (614): The Pursuit of Happiness
October 2010
The venerable New Delhi-based monthly journal's decision to devote an entire issue to Gross National Happiness came as a welcome