The Chief Executive of Pakistan has decided to stop courting the West and focus on internal politics, but this brings him squarely up against the religious right. Meanwhile, the liberals
When two sworn and once-powerful enemies are in trouble, what do they do? Become friends, of course.
These are strange times for Pakistan. A military government announces a grassroots democracy
Is he a poacher, smuggler, Robin Hood, plain thug, or a Tamil politician-in-the-making? Will the real Veerappan please emerge out of the jungle?
It has been a distinguished story of
The regulation of female sexuality in film has always been central to defining India's national identity.
In 1954, 13,000 women of Delhi presented a petition to Jawaharlal
While all of India is talking of corruption and chargesheets at the highest echelons of national and state governments, an initiative gathers steam in a corner of Rajasthan to demand
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Regular parliamentary elections based on universal adult franchise have been a constant feature of independent Sri Lanka, continued from the inauguration in 1931 of the Donoughmore