If multi-party parliamentary democracy means giving the people a wide range of political choices, then there is plenty of it in India. The Indian citizenry can certainly have its pick
14 November 2007. The streets of Calcutta reverberated with the sound of the protesting footsteps of 60,000 ordinary citizens. The mammoth rally was organised to condemn the violence that
Rarely has there been such furore over something that is so little understood. Singur, north of Calcutta, and then Nandigram, located in Purbo Medinapur District of West Bengal, have become
Experience makes one wise, and it is wisdom, in the Tennysonnian sense, that lingers. After his long innings in government service, the second book written by the former Secretary for
In the initial years of militancy in Kashmir in the early 1990s, the political violence often divided villages – and their inhabitants – into several fratricidal factions. The legacy of this persisted
Andhra Pradesh offers a good case study of the compulsions that underlie the choice of violent methods of struggle, as well as the unpleasant consequences of the decision to take
It was about three in the morning when Ali heard the rooster crowing. He was already awake. He had not slept well the previous night, contemplating the journey he would
In 2002, when Panos South Asia and Himal Southasian launched the first roundtable of senior journalists from India and Pakistan at Nagarkot in Nepal, we did not expect that our
Hameed Haroon, CEO, Dawn Group of Publications What is important and critical is ideology, because we have changing ideologies in both India and Pakistan. We encounter the mechanics of changing
N Ram, executive Editor, The Hindu There is a need to do what many call 'reality testing' of the India-Pakistan relationship, with reference to both the internal and
India was earlier aligned with the USSR, while Pakistan had the backing of the USA – the superior world power – and China, the strongest regional player. Now, India as a bigger
