George Orwell's potent rejection of censorship originated with the conflict between his wartime experience as propagandist to the Empire and his conviction that colonialism was responsible for hunger in British India.
A creeping clampdown on Christianity in Bhutan poses the serious question of whether the kingdom has really set itself on the path to secular democracy.
New Delhi has begun a frantic military build-up in the eastern Himalaya, based on the army chief's interests and perceived Chinese deployments in north Tibet.
'Somebody has to stand up,' Salman Taseer had responded in a television interview last December, after being reminded that challenging Pakistan's rightwing Islamists over the controversial
With the release of Aung San Sui Kyi from house arrest in November, there has been a renewed feeling within Burma that progress, however slight, might be being made toward
