As the third largest body of water in the world, the Indian Ocean has a mystique all its own, with an extraordinarily diverse history. The Indian Ocean waters cover an
The Indian Ocean has become increasingly central, contested and crowded. Not just Southasia but all of southern Asia must reclaim its stake on the water.
Attempting to describe the scale and impact of the current flooding in Pakistan is no more possible than trying to describe the colours of a butterfly's wing to
The only way to give an optimistic spin to the stalemate in government formation in Nepal is to consider it as part of the peace process. Otherwise, it is a
When one thinks of Southasia as a physical entity, the image that immediately springs to mind is that of the physical landmass. And yet, on the southern shores of Southasia
S Thavaratnam, chairman of the Jaffna District Fishermen's Cooperative Society Unions Federation, played a significant role in unionising fishermen in northern Sri Lanka, starting in the mid-1970s. At
Vivekanandan has worked with fishing communities for over a quarter-century. Most of that was spent with the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies, a cooperative organisation for small fishermen, of
The historical effects of trans-Indian Ocean involvement in Southasia, while major for the overseas areas concerned, were minor in terms of life in the region itself.
The Oriya writer Jagannath Prasad Das is an extremely versatile figure, known for his poetry, plays and short stories. In 2006, he received the prestigious Saraswati Samman, an annual literary
I was recently forced to overhear a conversation between strangers, two Indian women, who met on the Bhopal-Delhi Shatabdi Express. They quickly zeroed in on each other's caste.
The flood that inundated Sindh beginning in the first week of August left hundreds of villages and scores of towns in 21 out of the 23 districts of the province
On 28 July, a family in Peshawar received a distressing call from relatives in Swat's Madyan resort town. The caller and his family had, as a last-ditch effort
