In early December 1984, a poisoned cloud spewing from a factory lacking in safety mechanisms killed, maimed and choked tens of thousands. Twenty-five years on, the legacy of that fateful
A Spring Long Past
Dilip Simeon
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic – Albert Camus
India's Maoist movement (named Naxalism, after thana Naxalbari in Darjeeling district)
SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAMME
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
The South Asian Studies Programme (SASP) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore seeks two
• Is there such a thing as a South Asian civilisational community?
There is no such thing as a South Asian ´community´, only South Asian ´communities´. Even the term ´South Asian´
Employment is often seen to be empowering for women, and various agencies and individuals have advocated the unrestricted movement of women to enable them to find employment in other countries.
Date: 22 – 25 October 2009
Location: Madison, Wisconsin (USA)
The Annual Conference on South Asia attracts over 500 scholars and other interested parties annually, who travel from a dozen countries
In his classic work on cricket, Beyond a Boundary, the West Indian Marxist CLR James makes the point that most anecdotes about cricket are boring to the non-aficionado because they
President General Pervez Musharraf's military-led regime had to go to extraordinary lengths before and after the 10 October 2002 elections to place Sindh under its control. With the
