After years of taking steps towards democratising the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama in the summer of 2001 pushed through one of the most significant political reforms to
South Asia continues to appease the People's Republic, to its own detriment.
First of all, the bitter facts of history: in the political tumult of post-Second World War
Notwithstanding years of Chinese rule Tibet remains Tibet. There is no grand: strategy to extinguish the nation but Beijing's misinformed policies lead to the misplaced suspicion that there
Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the cold war between the US and the USSR was such that if the former launched a nuke-mounted missile, Soviet satellites were capable of
Li Peng, China's second most powerful leader, came visiting India in early January, and clearly his interest was more than a pose with Mrs. Li in front of
Dragonfire by Humphrey Hawksley, Macmillan, London, 2000
Styled as India's Nostradamus, the BBC recently showcased Vimal Singh predicting a Confederation of India and Pakistan by the year 2015.
It is worth remembering that even as free trade makes the headlines, agreements by themselves are not likely to work the magic. For South Asia to unleash its long-suppressed economic
"One can explain India´s weakness by India´s greatness," says Stephen P. Cohen, head of the South Asia Programme at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He
A controversial power plant pits a bishop's word against a president's silence.
Sri Lanka's most senior Catholic bishop recently made a startling announcement at
I saw on television a picture more awesome than the familiar mushroom cloud of nuclear explosion. The mountain had turned white. I wondered how much pain had been felt by
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY, BOMBAY, 30 MAY, 1998
After the recent round of nuclear explosions, a top nuclear scientist reportedly said that until the tests Indians had to read their
THE HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI, 14 MAY 1998
India's bomb tests are morally shameful and politically foolish. Any act which legitimises or promotes the production or deployment of
