While the forces of globalisation may be Westernising other Himalayan tourist hubs like Kathmandu, Leh and Dharamsala, they are helping to shape a new identity in Baltistan.
The world differentiates between the two populations of the Ladakh region of India´s extreme north – one Muslim, the other Buddhist — in interesting ways. Outsiders, be they from New Delhi
After being disallowed from shooting in India, the filming of Salman Rushdie´s Midnight´s Children has been booted out of Sri Lanka as well. The self-appointed Prevention of Vice
To open the life of someone like Mother Teresa to scrutiny is always a difficult task. First, there is an aura that surrounds her image, one which seems to disallow
The philosophy of "Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse Tung-Thought", which caught the public's imagination in Naxalbari 30 years ago has now moved south to the forests of Andhra Pradesh.
Arundhati Roy’s 'The God of Small Things' exposes the limits of Western criticism that flattens Southasian literature into exoticism, moral lessons or comparisons to Rushdie – exposing, too, the gaps in understanding between Southasians themselves
Tibet Goes Hollywood" said the Newsweek cover, while the British newspaper The Independent wrote of a "love affair" between Beverly Hills and the high plateau. There are
Colombo has been a traditional friend and New Delhi a friend in need of this strategic yet vulnerable republic, the smallest member of SAARC.
There is no record of when
