Over the past year, events have moved quickly in Sri Lanka. At the end of the war, less than ten months ago, the Sinhalese people appeared united and triumphant. Army
Tinnitus, she said, and I backed away slowly, eyeing her suspiciously. Tinnitus would account for everything, she ended lamely, her palms up in the air. I left in a huff,
There are less than three months left before the 28 May deadline for the promulgation of the new Nepali constitution. With the 601-member Constituent Assembly not having used the allotted
The defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India's general elections last year was greeted with relief by secularists and democrats everywhere. Not entirely unreasonably: they read
The main cantonment housing the combatants of the Fifth Division of the Maoist People's Liberation Army (PLA) is built along a ridgeline in Dahabang, in Nepal's
Rarely do we have relatives who live anywhere near a hundred years. And it is a greater miracle to have a grand aunt – Louisa Arulamma Thambyrajah, born on 6 February
The 18th-century ‘discovery’ by Western academics of Sanskrit allowed a whole new branch of science-minded researchers to delve into the mysteries of the Subcontinent: hence, ‘Indology’. Once the three-century-old hang-ups inherent in this field are tossed aside, what is left?
