Comment - Himal Southasian (Page 141)

Waiting for the Islamic moderniser

Secularism is not an overwhelming reality in Bangladesh. Scholarly dissection of Islam in Bangladesh has forever posed the interaction of an outside religion with a native culture. The introduction of

By Chanchal Sarkar

/ 1 Feb 1998

I, Me, Myself

Diana Hayden of India is the new Miss World. A veritable triumph of packaging, say some. A little dentistry, a little cosmetic surgery, rigorous workouts at a gym, a top-class

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 1998

Dhaka Deja Vu

Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has declared that she will begin her movement to dislodge Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League after the Eid festival

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 1998

Triple Trouble

There was a time, until the mid-1980s, when Bhutan was thought by many to be an exemplar of a multi-ethnic nation at peace with itself. The country´s three communities

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 1998

Wounded Tigers

Brokers are jumping off hotel balconies in Hong Kong. In Thailand, the government has put out a mental health alert. Suicide hotline switchboards are jammed in Korea. Currencies have become

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 1998

Round-up of regional news

Hair-raising amendment In recent months, before the announcement of elections, New Delhi saw frenzied debate over the Women's Representation Bill – proposals for 50 percent, 33 percent, 25 percent

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

India: Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan

The centrist political platform held by Congress has become largely irrelevant.

By Subir Bhaumik

/ 1 Jan 1998

Can the Southasian toad leapfrog?

We gave them Rajneesh, and they gave us Bill Gates

By Kunda Dixit

/ 1 Jan 1998

Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan

The world´s largest democracy, whatever may be its quality, is up for elections again. The fallout of the Jain Commission report brought down the government of I.K. Gujral,

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

The prime ego

The political crisis that engulfed Pakistan in November-December overshadowed all other matters in this country for weeks on end. Some saw it as a rank tussle for power between the

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

Video Nights in Thimphu

As recently as the late 70s, it was possible for the Berkeley professor Leo Rose to write in his Politics of Bhutan that most families had as much land at

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

RAW WOUND

The leaking of the "interim report" of Justice M.C. Jain, who constituted the one-man commission to investigate the death of Rajiv Gandhi, has suddenly changed the course

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998