The Bagmati River runs down from the Himalayan midhills surrounding Kathmandu Valley, entering India at the Sitamarhi District of Bihar. In Khagaria District, the river joins up with the Kosi
LTTE flag being unfurled by a supporter in Grenada when Sri Lanka took on Australia during the recent World Cup.
The recent campaign by Amnesty International against human-rights abuses in
The passion for taking Bangladesh back from the grip of near-self-immolation was in evidence at the premier of a documentary called Deshantori (The Migrant), in London in early February. Currently
The art of Nepal – a belated, blunt and sometimes obscene review of books on the subject. The Kathmandu Valley, it was said back in the 1950s when Nepal opened its
Shipping restarted (India/Pakistan)
In mid-December, India and Pakistan signed a revised protocol that restored an important cargo-shipping option between the two countries. Now, for the first time in 30
It had seemed that the ULFA wanted the manifesto to be the starting point for talks with the central government, and for the first time a militant outfit was spelling
The unslain demons of Bangladesh's politics have returned to haunt a democracy that the small Southasian state has struggled to preserve for nearly two decades. On 22 January,
It's a village surrounded by villas. Nithari. A "well-concealed eyesore", according to one newspaper account. It is inhabited by migrant labourers, some employed as domestic servants
The West Bengal Chief Minister and the ruling Left Front (LF) government's former poet-commissar, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, translator of Mayakovsky, is busy with another kind of poetry these days.
The undeclared Eelam War IV in Sri Lanka shows no signs of abating. The Ceasefire Agreement, whatever is left of it, is enervated and made more irrelevant daily. Violence in
Indians need no longer worry that their country has 'made it', when The Times of London advises Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime-Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown to pay heed
