As Indian writing in English gains global recognition, assumptions about a singular “Indian” sensibility overlook class, gender and socio-political nuance in contemporary literary works
Bombay and Karachi. once acclaimed as the two most cosmopolitan and dynamic commercial centres of South Asia, have been reduced to clusters of warring, sectarian ghettoes. Violent political goons, extortionists
Since 13 April 1984, Indian and Pakistani troops have confronted each other, eyeball to eyeball, for control of the Siachen Glacier and its approaches in the eastern Karakoram mountain range,
The Nepali Supreme Court's landmark decision against virginity tests reaffirms the legal definition of marriage but it is not as progressive as it appears to be.
The leaders of India and Pakistan have now appropriated to themselves, as others had done before, the power that was God’s alone – to kill mountains, make the earth quake, bring the sea to boil, and destroy humanity.
For decades, military planners in the United States, former Soviet Union, and the other nuclear weapons states have convinced themselves that their nuclear weapons are a deterrent. The nuclear annihilation
A real dam in Pakistan
Dams are no stuff of fantasia. Between the charged debates for and against high dams (Himal, March 1998), they continue to be built and are
