Chhetria Patrakar is much impressed by the Bangladesh government's ingenuity – or ingenuosness. A private TV station, Banglavision, produces a three-part series on the country's most famous
As was seen with the War of Liberation, resulting in the birth of Bangladesh, a common religion alone cannot hold different nationalities together. Issues of good governance, economic development, social
Economists have long made the case for diversification as key to a country's export competitiveness. In line with this, Nepal has made considerable progress in diversifying markets for
When Velupillai Prabhakaran perished in May 2009, the long Eelam War ended with him – as did a phase in Indo-Lankan relations. For the best part of three decades, the Tamil
The case of Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman sentenced to death under Pakistan's 'blasphemy' laws, and the 4 January assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, who
The Maldives
Taxing new year
Travellers are going to be wishing that they had gone to visit the Maldives last year instead of this, with the Maldivian government having enacted
In recent years, the Sri Lankan economy has been increasingly looking towards the East. This policy trend first became evident during the height of the war in 2007 as the
On 4 January, Punjab province Governor Salman Taseer was killed by a member of his security detail, Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri. But as disturbing as the assassination itself were the
The confessional statement of Swami Asseemanand – a self-styled godman, originally Jatin Chatterji from Hooghly district in West Bengal – has finally put to rest lingering doubts, if any credible ones remained,
If familiarity really does breed fondness, CP is in real danger of falling madly in love with Mahinda Rajapaksa;he seems to keep doing things that cannot be ignored.Though
When a cotton bud blossoms
It prays and groans
Don't let me turn
Into a killer's uniform
– Punjabi poet Surjit Patar
Surendra Mohan
When Surendra Mohan
