Beyond finding answers to who exercises power and how, what makes the political analysis of developing countries interesting is the attempt to understand how those in power increase their capacity
Entertainers, intellectuals and liberals in Pakistan are being squeezed. They were already a threatened species, thanks to the policies of successive governments which have resulted in the rise of the
Each time there is an election on the horizon, the Indian political parties play out a great game. In the last few years this game has been enacted along the
An international treaty which will liberalise rules on international investments the same way that GATT did on trade is drawing flak.
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is an international
Junoon's fame has deeper roots in the hearts of Pakistanis than any notification from the Ministry of Culture.
When the Pakistani band Junoon toured India in May earlier
The Subcontinent buys into the beauty pageant myth, even as the West abandons it.
When, on 26 November, the vari cms Misses representing their countries cavort on the stage at
By now, Pakistanis are used not only to governments coming and going, but also to their using religion to shore up diminishing popularity. Benazir Bhutto's father did it,
Twenty seven lorries flying Red Cross flags wended their way on 30 September through the thick Tamil Tiger-held Vanni jungles of northern Sri Lanka into government military territory. The lorries
Taslimanasreen returned to Bangladesh about the same time the more celebrated Salman Rushdie received a semi-reprieve from the fatwa issued against him by the long-gone Ayatollah Khomeini. These kinds of
The Nepali Parliament is winding down its monsoon session amidst the most rowdy inter-party squabble the Lower House has ever seen, reminding one of the bedlam that overtook the Uttar
Meena is the message
No Superhuman feats for her, no inter-galactic forays, and certainly no dishum-dishum crime-busting scenes. Ten-year-old Meena, the video cartoon character, is on a different, more arduous,
