The Kargil mess may well lead to the use of Great Power influence in South Asia, something which New Delhi has resisted for decades
For a military engagement which New
At a time when Marshal MacLuhan was talking about the global village, when. Rolling Stone began publishing in America, Melody Maker started coming out in England and Time-Out happened in
New Yorker Bhaskar ('Papa') Menon looks back at the city he grew up in and his entry into JS.
At six, the world is focused on small things,
The funniest thing about the closure of JS is that it hasn't really closed down. It is one of the best-kept secrets of Indian publishing, because, ever since
In his quest for a label for the people of Calcutta, Jug Suraiya says that while all honorary Bengalis are Calcuttees at heart, all Calcuttans are not necessarily hon Bongs.
C.Y. Gopinath marvels at the revival of a city that loves itself too much to let itself die.
Bandopadhyaya was definitely following me. He had been on to me
Women are the silent sufferers in the war over Kashmir.
Women have been the worst hit in the war in Kashmir. They have been killed in crossfire, shot in public
At the slightest hint of normalisation of relations with India, every Pakistani government is accused of selling out on Kashmir. Yet, as the 1998 elections showed, a political party that
Successive Pakistani governments have painted themselves into a corner over Kashmir by their overuse of rhetoric and emotion. This has locked Pakistan into an all-or-nothing position.
The 'state'
Kashmir is the main excuse that India and Pakistan use to justify the high cost of their militarisation. It is not merely the peoples of Jammu and Kashmir who suffer
D.B.S. Jeyarai examines the phases of a bestial war fought under the banners of beasts, and concludes that it will have to run its fearful and self-destructive course.
Sasanka Perera says the conflicts of the last two decades will leave a long legacy of political violence.
Over the last two decades, Sri Lanka's traditions of civil
