On 2 January, the Sri Lanka armed forces brought the town of Kilinochchi, the administrative capital of the Tamil Tigers, back under government control. The win was not entirely unexpected,
Friend and foe alike will grant that, since his election in November 2005, President Mahinda Rajapakse has proven adroit at strengthening his grip on power, be it by means fair
The string of victories claimed by the Sri Lankan armed forces in recent weeks against the LTTE has paradoxically left the Indian government smug and worried at the same time.
The fall of Kilinochchi and Elephant Pass over the past month signals the end of the LTTE as a player whose conventional military capacity had helped it to win some
AK: How do you understand the 'national question'?
JW: In a country where you have different communities – whether you call them peoples or nations or national minorities – every
This is a time to take stock. Due to all the wrong turns that Sri Lanka has taken, and the right ones it did not, at and since our Independence
The Indo-Pakistan feud keeps South Asia apart, but a criss-crossing media is rapidly bridging the subcontinental gap.
ALIENS from another planet, or at least, strangers from faraway foreign lands. Not
What is the size of India´s tourism industry, and what do you make of its potential?
The total inbound tourism to India is about 2.4 million. Maybe this
The murderous assault on Bombay by Islamist militants, at least some of whom were from Pakistan, has exposed once again the grave danger that radical Islamist movements pose to Pakistan,
How does one remember an event, particularly one of the magnitude of the November 2008 Bombay attacks, which, transcending the personal became the collective tragedy of an entire country? Long
Afghanistan, the theatre of the 'war on terror', can provide many lessons to those who seek to crush violence by military means.
Just 11 days before the Calcutta inauguration ceremony of the 1996 cricket World Cup – being co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan – a bomb exploded on 31 January in Colombo.
