Gen Musharraf appears to have won this round, but the people of Pakistan are sure to win the next. What has changed is that the judges are on the side of the people.
TIBET
Into the shanties
Chinese authorities have reportedly been stepping up a process of forcing at least 100,000 Tibetan nomads to give up their traditional lifestyles and settle down
On 6 September, Chrono Satellite Broadcast (CSB), Bangladesh's only private 24-hour news channel (which launched just this past March) was suddenly forced to shut down by the government.
The answer to conflict resolution does not require theories imported from outside Southasia, merely an acceptance of our archaeologically proven multi-cultural textured past. At the same time, our archaeological understanding must be refined, so that a new way of looking at the past offers a way tow
India/Burma
What copters?
Following increasingly strident attacks by human-rights activists over the past couple of months, the New Delhi government recently denied – as "completely baseless" – reports that
In the early days of the Russian Revolution, starry-eyed Western sympathisers made a beeline for Moscow to report on the glories of the 'Soviet paradise'. Lenin memorably referred
Kabul and Islamabad have taken an important step back from guiding the attempt at détente. Now it's up to the myriad others to take the nascent peace process forward.
A combination of colonial mythmaking and contemporary lack of historical rigour have left the Battle of Plassey entirely forgotten, even on its 250th anniversary.
It is always tremendously sad to report on the killing of journalists, and here Chhetria Patrakar has to refer to the murder of Zakia Zaki on 5 June. Zazi (see
As long as caste continues as the overwhelming factor in India, all-round sporting glory will be elusive, and Indian teams will continue performing disastrously globally.
During the election campaign of November 2005 that saw him scrape through to a narrow victory, Mahinda Rajapakse promised an "honourable peace" with the LTTE. This was in
On 12 May, Karachi relapsed into chaos, recalling the dark days of the early 1990s, when armed gangs affiliated with ethnic political parties could openly threaten, beat, kidnap, torture and
