The expansion of the 1970s and 1980s concealed the structural weaknesses of the Pakistani political economy, which are responsible for today's stagnation in growth and the payments crisis.
The soldiers' fight against the Maobaadi since the Nepali Emergency was put in place six months ago has delivered an unacceptable volume of human 'collateral damage'. The
The ongoing violence and its broadening social and geographical base in the state is a consequence of the political recasting of social identities.
The winter moon had already risen over
The contradictions of modern Gujarat
Writing this letter takes me back to when I first came to Ahmedabad five years ago and fell in love with the city. Gujarat, the
Only ten years ago, Nepal was a country full of hope for its future. How have things gone so horribly wrong?
To understand today's tormented Nepal – from the
Nepal has entered a telescoped period of self-destruction in which a perfectly worthy country has been laid to ruin by power-hungry commissars with discredited ideology who have handed guns to
From politicians to policy-makers and intellectuals to bureaucrats in Nepal, the news of Enron's arrival could not have come at a better time. In 1995 the World Bank,
The making and unmaking of the Dabhol project
In 1991, a minority Congress government, applauded by the ringmasters of the neo-liberal circus, embarked on the wholesale liberalisation of the Indian
India is a billion-weak nation thirsting for truly international sporting glory. Every four years, the fact that Olympic success eludes India is lamented in public fora. Karnam Malleswari's
South Asia's blurred cultural boundaries are being given sharp edges with frontiers full of patrolling soldiers, the raising of border security forces, and even barbed barricades and floodlights.
Bundelkhand is a region at the heart of South Asia, but you will not find it demarcated on the map. The evolution of history has decided that this historic region
Under-5 mortality rate
Seven Million South Asian r children under the age of five died in 1990. In 2000 the figure had declined to about 3 million. However, the overall
