In the perception of Big Brother India, notwithstanding almost 23 years of Southasian regional cooperation, its greatest threat comes from the borders (including the maritime boundaries) it shares with six
Regional connectivity was the lofty theme at the SAARC Summit in New Delhi last year. To underscore its importance, Southasia's summiteers flagged off a car rally that would
Europe is often held out as a model of what Southasia could become. I do not think that is an appropriate model for emulation, however. First of all, the concrete
Southasia enjoys a strong history of learning through formal and informal systems of education, but the system of education introduced during the colonial period was somewhat alien to the cultural
Karachi is in Madras and Lahore is in Bengal; when will they be in Pakistan, and Pakistan in Southasia? During the late 1840s, the troops of the Bengal Presidency invaded
For me, Southasia has always been an imaginary landscape. I never thought of myself as a 'Southasian', and never had to deal seriously with the category until, aged
The continuing waves of history are bottled and labelled as 'Ages', 'Centuries' and 'Eras'. For a while, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama felt that
Walking down busy streets in countries outside of India, I have been questioned by strangers as to whether I knew Urdu, and by unknown persons asking me, "Dada! Aapni
It was September 1988, and we had had the worst floods in a century. These people at Gaforgaon had not eaten for three days. A torn sari strung across the
The worldwide proliferation of politico-economic groupings, including multilateral institutions, in the aftermath of World War II has been substantial. However, only a handful of them can claim to have achieved
Discussions of any question concerning 'identity' in Southasia are always bedevilled by a failure to make one important distinction: that between identity and identification. So, when we ask
