Looking into a row of tenement buildings, a gallery of working-class life in Delhi, a rich and a full world of intrigue and festering desires is unfolding. It is getting
INDIA
53 years of special powers
In late October, Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 (AFSPA) would be removed
BANGLADESH
Death squad
In mid-August, a report by the rights watchdog Amnesty International strongly criticised Bangladesh's elite police force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), accusing it of human-rights
There is no question about it, Bengalis in India are justified in wanting to stop calling their state West Bengal. Paschimbanga was the new consensus name, trumping alternatives such as
According to more US diplomatic cables, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kumari Mayawati is a 'paranoid … egomaniac' obsessed with becoming prime minister, and with a very particular brand of
Infant deaths resulting from a recent clinical trial in India have led to a media outcry. But few have considered how explosive these revelations actually are, or the problematic use and application of the Right to Information Act.
The concept of kalapani – the ancient Subcontinental prohibition against crossing the seas, of which much has been made – does not mean that travel was unknown in earlier times in Southasia.
