Have you noticed? The gun-toting Osama bin Laden has pushed the peaceable Dalai Lama into deep background. The 'Tibet cause' is presently in the doldrums as, next door,
Noam Chomsky says humans are an "endangered species" and given the nature of their institutions, they are likely to destroy themselves in a fairly short time. When Chomsky
The year 2001 was the most turmoil-ridden in Nepal's modern history, and arguably in its entire two centuries as a nation-state. The week preceding the new year was
Linking mainland electricity grids is a practical form of regionalism that benefits all parties. With rising populations and finite capabilities, the only way for all countries to move ahead may
Reviving SAARC will be difficult but it can be done, says the former Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh. This time, however, government must play facilitator and let business and civil society
There is a lot of talk on the need to understand each other in South Asia, but strangely nothing is being done to promote area studies Take one instance: the
SAARC is at such a point in its history that it must now be moving, and be seen to be moving, decisively forward. The alternative is regression and obsolescence
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The writer Rabindranath Tagore flew in a plane in 1932. He had awoken at three-thirty in the dark morning and was in the air at four. Tagore was travelling
Pakistanis, living at home or abroad, have become masters at monologues, despising or ignoring the value of dialogue among ourselves and with others. We have convinced ourselves that we are
As the US mobilised its armed forces in the after math of the terrorist attacks of 11 September, the world's attention focused on Pakistan, so crucial to military
Except when it explodes in violence, Manipur in Northeast India is a state that rarely attracts attention. That is perhaps a misfortune to equal the tragedy of death that perpetually
Just a decade ago, there was near-unanimous agreement among the people of Assam that the cadre of the United Liberation Front of Assam/ Ahom (ULFA) should lay down arms and
