The longest day of the year is by definition the hottest day of the year, and so this thing happens nearly every summer at solstice on these plains, our home,
On 15 June, General Moeen U Ahmed, the allegorical Man on Horseback of Bangladesh who was instrumental in installing a military-backed government through a coup in early 2007, rode off
Neither the title – Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development Project – nor its acronym, ALTID, rolls off the tongue. The sombre and somewhat vague designation seems inappropriate for such an ambitious undertaking
Mahinda Rajapakse has had a good few months. First, he resoundingly defeated the LTTE, ending a war that had raged for almost three decades. Then, just as calls for an
Chhetria Patrakar has recently been seeing some blue in the southern reaches of the Subcontinent – not because of temperature-induced encroaching sea levels, but rather in terms of a temperament-depressing encroaching
INDIA TODAY publishes several editions in the ´vernacular´, and some are said to be better than others. Recently got to compare an Hindi issue with the original English, and found
Around here, everything stems from the springtime. After the relaxation of the winter, as the sun rises higher and the snows melt and the fresh winds come in from the
The political stability for which the people of Nepal have long waited, for the sake of peace and progress – and, lately, for the writing of a new constitution – has again
The war in Sri Lanka is officially over. LTTE founder and chief-for-life, Velupillai Prabhakaran, is dead beyond all doubt, killed while trying to escape from the tiny strip of land
The European Union represents the highest degree of regional integration in the world today. Especially in the context of the global economic crisis, others are now trying to see how
