Daily Times, 9 March 2010
The defection of a large number of commanders and fighters of the Hizb-i-Islami to the Karzai government is a significant development and the first concrete
That modernity and the market would serve to dispel the remaining vestiges of superstition, ritual and religiosity in India has been belied. Rationality and the scientific temper have not necessarily
There are many people who dream but few can turn dreams into action. Kanak Mani Dixit is one of those very few whose dreams are endless and whose actualisations are
LADAKH RIOTS
In his article on "Riots in Ladakh" (Sept/Oct 1989), Siddiq Wahid makes two points. First, that it is the wicked foreigners who have planted the
Another massive hydropower scheme is coining up in the Himalaya, this lime in Himachal Pradesh: the Nathpa Jhakri Power Project.
TOTAL COST: U$1.8 billion
World Bank loan, U.
Following environmental its´ protests, Beijing has postponed till 1997 plans to build a U$10 billion dam at Three Gorges on the Yangtze River. If ever built, the project would
Load shedding was supposed to have ended in Kathmandu with the commissioning in 1982 of the Kulekhani Hydroelectric Project, Nepal´s biggest and costliest power plant. This February, load shedding
We had to wait till 2009 before someone thought of knitting a song around the ubiquitous sound, dhantaran! This 'expression' does not have a Southasian origin as far
Wege und Ittwege der Entwickslungspotlitik
Das Experimentieren
an der Dritten Welt
Toni Hagen
Verlag Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Zurich
J988, 38 Swiss Francs
Review by Claus Euler
The "Third World&
