Producing Women
After three decades of television in India, women have finally begun to enter the production arena in a big way. They are no longer just pretty faces on
The Taliban are attempting to impose a new moral order in Afghanistan and they are doing it at gunpoint. The Afghan experience has lessons for the rest of South Asia,
Buddha Brouhaha
It was a classic case of much ado about nothing.
An exhibition of Buddha´s relics preserved in India was jointly organised by New Delhi´s National Museum
Talks between India and Pakistan are periodically resumed and abandoned, with both sides fixated in their positions and little hope for reconciliation. Rather than throw one´s hands up in
Anniversaries are useful occasions as a way to remind us of the values that are enshrined in our history. The golden jubilee year of Indian and Pakistani independence, 1997, is
With the passing away on 15 March of former Supreme Court judge Dorab Patel, Pakistan lost one of its most prominent and dedicated human rights activists. A slightly built figure,
The Sixth BCSPIN Summer School on "Current Trends in High Energy Physics and Cosmology" held in Kathmandu in early June owes its origins to the inspiration of the
If observers have been concerned about the squabbling parties and the resultant political downturn in Nepal, take a look at its economy. With the financial year coming to a close
If one does not count the Indo-Pakistan land border, which has to have its own solutions, the problem of closed terrestrial crossings may be resolving itself elsewhere in South Asia.
SAARC summits and the high level meetings leading up to them are long-drawn out affairs. Three consecutive two-day meetings of the heads of SAARC divisions in the foreign ministries, of
In the macho military logic of Subcontinental hawks, any talk of even a freezing of defence budgets is treason. Our pampered generals know that their privileged lifestyles are threatened by
An adult woman, well-educated by Pakistani standards, left her parents declaring that she wished to live with the man she had quietly married. For reasons of security, the woman, 22-year-old
