After 13 years, Bombay courts in September finally began to return verdicts on the 1993 bomb blasts in that city that had left 257 dead and 713 injured. The findings
The quest for paradise often ends abruptly when tourists end up with cowdung on their clothes, writes David Nicholson-Lord, author of The. Greening of the Cities (Routledge), in The Nation.
There was a time when the rebellion of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) used to be compared to the predecessor insurgency of the Sendero Luminso (Shining Path) in Peru,
Killers have vanished in the crowd
And in search of her disappeared son
The old women slices partially rotten guavas
Placing unspoilt portions in the bowl
– Ashok Vajpai in Jeene
The crowd breaks repeatedly into good-natured applause and cheers, led by a moustached man with a cordless mike on the road below us. He has a sonorous way of bellowing
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
– John Soule, Terre Haute Express (1851)
A few months after the Afghan war, I was sitting in the Dhaka office
Trivialisation of news in India’s national English-language press hides larger trends that are overtaking the media world – taking news to the villages.
As international patent standards come into force in India, its widely hailed pharmaceutical industry is facing turbulence that will likely dramatically raise the price of medicine, at least for the short term.
People-to-people contacts between India and Pakistan will mean nothing if commerce does not pick up. An appreciation of Indo-Pakistani prospects requires looking at Punjab-Punjab.
Aircraft hijackings took place for a long time in India without anyone pointing the finger to ‘Islamic fundamentalism’. The tendency to see the world through the eyes of George W Bush will always lead us away from the true nature of extremism.
The killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti should be enough to tell the rest of Southasia and the world how Islamabad’s military rulers intend to maintain their grip on the resource-rich and long-suffering province of Balochistan.
