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Thanks so much for your recent coverage of the Lhotshampa refugee issue (June, "Repatriation or resettlement"). We found it unfortunate, however, that the writer did not
Hard-working caretaker
We are happy to know that Himal is observing the present political situation in Bangladesh, but feel you have been unfair in your coverage (see May 2007, "
Just how 'real' is this region we call Southasia? On the one hand, there are those who suggest that 'Southasia' is a geopolitical invention imagined and
There's an acute lack of philosophy in this land.
Basics haunt us, secure us, insecure us, and rule our cramped identities.
Our fears have gotten bigger than us.
Not even my arch-enemies will accuse me of being lily-livered — least of all, the Foreign Registration officers at the Lahore Police Headquarters. In fact, some of them are reluctantly appreciative
Dhaka basked resplendent under a blue sky as I emerged from the cavernous Zia International Airport. As a hardened Dilliwalah, I was preparing to fend off taxi drivers lunging for
This is an issue that has stayed with me for nearly three decades. When the first Indian nuclear device exploded at Pokhran, Rajasthan, back in May 1974, the scientists sent
The Greater One Horned Rhinoceros (rhinoceros unicornis) inhabited the length of north Southasia from east to west, from the Indus plains right across the Ganga-Jamuna doab, along the Ganga maidaan,
India makes up the larger part of Southasia by landmass and population, and so if India were shining one could make the argument that so would Southasia. But this would
The scizophrenia is certain bureaucratic echelons of the Government of India and its associated academia must be palpable. The entire line of the Himalayan frontier has been ultra-sensitive terrain ever
The days when people in Pakistan sat glued to their television sets watching 'Waris' on PTV have given way to moribund 'broiler chicken' productions lacking the
SAARC came into existence in 1985, at a time when there were no visionaries left among the political class of the Subcontinent. That is itself eloquent testimony to the irrelevance
