Polling for Afghanistan's presidential and provincial council elections is slated for 20 August, against a backdrop of increasing and unprecedented violence that is putting more Afghans at risk
Throughout the years of the island's ethnic conflict, successive governments of Sri Lanka maintained that the war was against the LTTE and not the Tamil people. As such,
As of 21 July, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported a total of 700 deaths from 'swine flu', since the new virus was first identified in late April
Those who could tear themselves away from reading about Michael Jackson's death and his various artificial body parts got to talk about happenings on other constructed landscapes. The
The Carvaka school of philosophy offered some of the first rationalist opposition to the otherworldly tendencies of Hinduism and Buddhism.
Through the ages, various societies have sparkled with bursts of
Like in India, the left in Bangladesh is currently anaemic; unlike its Indian counterpart, however, the Bangladeshi left has been in this state for decades. Contesting under the Awami League
Afghanistan's opium economy has been called the most serious problem facing the country today. President Hamid Karzai has long warned that either "we destroy the problem or
From the heavens
Sometimes I was the mountain,
And carried you on my chest.
A bridge sometimes, also riverbanks,
And now I am an ocean,
But you continue to flow,
Located strategically in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka was a hub in the maritime silk and spice routes for millennia. It drew traders from the East and West for both
The results of the Lok Sabha elections proved far itchier for India's communists than did the scorching May heat in smouldering West Bengal. Not since 1977 had the
Bangladesh/Nepal
Monopolistic diplomacy
Bangladesh may be Nepal's second-largest trading partner in Southasia (after India), but who would believe that the total amount of their trade only comes
