Following the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral successes in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh during the recent assembly polls, India's national press seems intent on trying to impress
General Ne Win, the founder of military authoritarianism in Burma, was secretly trained during World War II by the fascist-allied military regime of Japan. Four decades later, during the 1988
There is a certain claustrophobia that can crop up from being in one place, or one situation, for too long. It is not necessarily a closing-in from the outside: the
Three years ago, on the back of the election of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, there was a subtle but perceptible change in India's regional policy. This
Bombay is one of the world's great cosmopolitan cities, and is the largest Southasian metropolis. Measured by the diverse cultures and plethora of communities – and not only from
Nepal has teetered on the brink of the election-or-no-election ledge for the last two months. Twice postponed, the elections for the Constituent Assembly, scheduled for 10 April, hang fire as
Sri Lanka's defence secretary, Gothabaya Rajapakse, has publicly stated his support for media censorship, the criminalisation of defamation and the prosecution of two media institutions for "critical
I grew up in what, in those days, could be called an almost perfectly middle-class Bengali family, one that abided by a set of even more perfected middle-class Bengali values.
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Mr Sustainability, Mr Friendship
Honouring his efforts to promote sustainable development practices and climate-change awareness, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was recently awarded the Sustainable Development Leadership Award
Life was hard enough for journalists in Pakistan before the police began registering cases against them. According to reports, in less than a month the police in Sindh registered cases
