While Arundhati Roy’s collection of essays reveals critical political truths and the acts of violence India has witnessed, it also raises questions about the elite practice of literary catharsis and the motives behind activist writing
On 15 August 2009, a policeman was suspended in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, the epicentre of one of the fiercest ongoing conflicts between India's Maoists, the armed vigilante group
The season's new fashion is in, and this fall, in Afghanistan, it is corruption. Indeed, corruption has become the issue on which the entire international community has descended
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), more bluntly called drones, might soon be used in anti-Maoist operations in India, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs. Apparently, they are to be used
When I arrived in Bhopal soon after the disaster, I was rather unprepared. Rushing to the city from the small town four hours away where I worked in an NGO,
The increasing intimacy between Kathmandu and Beijing highlights Nepal’s hope to ease its longstanding dependency on India – but it is also squeezing the country’s already vulnerable Tibetan community.
The world's worst industrial disaster, in Bhopal in 1984, left an estimated 8000 dead within a few days of the gas leak. Over subsequent years, about 25,000
Gadhimai Mela in Nepal will take place on 24 November, whether activists, sympathisers and critics cry themselves hoarse or not. Setting aside the visual repulsion, the macabre excess and the
