Southasian Briefs Tibet
Full state honours
Drawing to a close a controversial issue, the United States House of Representatives recently voted to go ahead with longstanding plans to award the
In late February of this year, things were looking very good for the Bharatiya Janata Party. State assembly elections had just finished in Punjab, Uttarkhand and Manipur, with the BJP
29 August was National Sports Day in India, to commemorate the great hockey player Dhyan Chand. But the outlook was rather dismal. According to a report presented before the Indian
When you walk into the enormous central hall of the Lahore Museum, your eye is quickly drawn to the two rows of miniature paintings displayed along the walls on either
After toiling for a year through the so-called All Party Representative Committee (APRC), Sri Lanka is currently on the verge of unveiling proposals for a political solution, including constitutional reforms,
How many of us are aware that Amitabh Bachchan has long been a gay icon? Or that the popular Hindi magazine Mayapuri runs features in which the heads of male
When, in April 2006, the people of Nepal overthrew the ambitious but incapable king, Gyanendra, they mandated the country's political parties and the Maoists to work for peace
The presence of the term document in the word documentary is a contentious matter, though the other nomenclature, non-fiction, is even more problematic. Indeed, the moral insinuation of both of
When I returned to my hometown, Siliguri, from a long stay abroad this summer, one of the first changes I noticed was the attitude of the young Nepali man who
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is in crisis: for the first time in democratic India, a foreign-policy issue has the potential to bring a government down. External issues have
On 12 August 2006, in the face of intense shelling in Jaffna by the Sri Lankan Army, villagers rushed to the Allaipiddy Catholic Church, where Father Thiruchchelvan Nihal Jim Brown
The most significant peace process in Southasia has hit a stalemate. After remarkable progress, the India-Pakistan rapprochement appears to have slipped down in the policymakers' priorities. The fact that
