Official records, quoting the legend of conversion, say that Yousuf Shamsuddin-al Tabrezi, popularly known as Thabreyzgefanu, brought Islam to the Maldives in 1153. President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, with his penchant
India's Hindu right does not like what it sees taking place in Nepal. Angry that the country is headed towards becoming a secular, democratic republic, it can see
Nanded, in Maharashtra, is a town with a significant population of different faiths – Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Buddhist. Nanded could well have become a new metaphor for secularism as practised
Globalisation – the universal codeword for the latest stage in the uneven development of capitalism at the planetary scale – points neither to a 'global village' nor to a '
"There goes the Ninja brigade again," was a familiar refrain among Anglophile folks during the six-month-long Lal Masjid/Jamia Hafsa crisis in Islamabad. For the vast majority of
Nepal's population as a whole harbours the dream of achieving wealth utilising the country's water resource. As for the political leadership, it desperately wants to make
The fight against large dams and the reservoirs they impound is a phenomenon that sparks wherever and whenever the people of Southasia feel empowered enough to resist. And so, the
As with much that has to do with China, the numbers alone are bewildering: build hundreds of tunnels and nearly 3000 kilometres of artificial canals, interlink four of the largest
"People are being tortured and killed on a mass scale," warns Sai Sai, a member of Burma's Shan ethnic minority, currently living in Thailand as a
Sikkim has recently been witness to what may be the longest satyagraha in its history. The indefinite hunger strike was called on 20 June 2007 by the Affected Citizens of
Pakistan is projected to become the world's fifth-largest country by 2030, with a population somewhere between 230 and 260 million people. This projected spurt in population is alarming
