In retrospect, it was the Maoist storming of Dunai, headquarters of the highland district of Dolpa, that precipitated the peace process. It pushed the government to limited deployment of the
Sri Lanka's just concluded general election has proved, if any proof was necessary, that as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew once told then president J.R. Jayewardene,
India's make-up will soon start looking different. Backward Bihar will no longer be its second most populous state. That status will go to Maharashtra, India's most
Can a hung Parliament that is widely predicted in the run-up to Sri Lanka's 10 October general elections, be the troubled country's great opportunity to abandon
On 25 July 2000, an Air France Concorde bound for New York crashed in flames shortly after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris killing all its passengers. Officials
Soon after the government withdrew its draft constitution from Parliament on 8 August, the gaunt face of Hedigalle Vimalasara Thero appeared in a rash of posters. He staged a fast-unto-death
The outcome of this one will be worth watching. Will Pakistan come to the Sri Lankan government´s aid where India hesitates to tread? That might well happen given that
"There is no doubt, of course, that those displaced persons who have come to settle in India are bound to have their citizenship. If the law is inadequate in
"South Asia" is a neutral term for the region, and has neither historical nor political baggage.
In the Urdu language goes a saying something like this: A cauliflower
It is clear that there is a campaign of terror, not necessarily coordinated, underway against selected minorities in India. This has serious implications for the country´s democratic polity, one
Azadi for Kashmir is not likely to have as much repercussions in rest of India as the ultra-nationalist fear.
"… THEN I secede," declared the creator of God of
