Comment - Himal Southasian (Page 137)

Round-up of regional news

Tully crosses the Bridge As soon as I heard about the opening of the Jamuna Bridge, I said to myself, I want to be there. I had been a witness

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Morning after

The mood in Pakistan changed swiftly following the nuclear tests, from what was dubbed as "euphoria" into today´s uncertainty and fear, which have escalated as the extent

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Round-up of regional news

The north-west, once the market garden of Calcutta, will be able to send its produce to the great cities of Bangladesh. Those wanting to travel quickly from east to west

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Upper catchment vs command area

Must a few always suffer for the greater good? And how to deal with displacement when it becomes inevitable? Let us take a hard look at some numbers. Between 1951

By Amit Mitra

/ 1 Aug 1998

Vanishing volunteerism

Thirty years ago when I started doing voluntary work (digging wells for drinking water) at villages in India´s Rajasthan, it was simple. No money, no prospects, no expectations – just

By Bunker Roy

/ 1 Aug 1998

Good ink for bad blood

The vernacular idiom expresses emotion far better than it does reason. Indian and Pakistani media were state-dominated to begin with. Since most of the population is not yet literate, it

By Khaled Ahmed

/ 1 Aug 1998

Two South Asian stalwarts

a tribute by Javed jabbar With the passing away of Nikhil Chakravarty and Mahbub ul Haq less than three weeks apart, on 27 June and 16 July, South Asia has

By Javed Iqbal

/ 1 Aug 1998

Tibet-free

Dharamsala had it coming, obviously. The swing of the media pendulum is vicious and whatever is lionised gets trashed, sooner or later. With the surfeit of Hollywood productions and personalities

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Fair is foul

It would have been a revolutionary bill and a first for this part of the world. But whoever heard of parliamentarians voluntarily giving up their privileges? The Women´s Bill,

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Nuclearism, genocidal mentality and psychic numbing

On the psychopathology of the nuclear-arms race.

By Ashis Nandy

/ 1 Jul 1998

Nuclearism, genocidal mentality and psychic numbing

Round-up of regional news

National identity on the tarmac Stealing the show from Pakistan's nuclear scientists in the run-up to the revenge blasts in Chagai was never going to be easy. But

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1998

Critical mass

The heat wave had the country in its grip. The usual problems of no water and no electricity were attendant. Fifty years into independence and every Indian knows that even

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1998