LONG BEFORE the Pathan general, Sher Shah Suri, built inns and mail stations along what has come to be known as the Grand Trunk Road, there was a network of
China favours Chinese-speakers, India does not allow dual nationality, and Britain would rather they stayed away. Ethnic Indians of Hong Kong are beginning to feel like castaways.
There are about
Among South Asian countries, there is some anxiety about a possible Bharatiya Janata Party victory in the upcoming Indian elections. Surprisingly, BJP pragmatists might live and let live.
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History, climate, and the Bengali way of doing things conspire against a Bangladeshi presence in World Cup cricket.
More than a billion eyes are now glued on the Subcontinent, with
When a country decides to change its name, rest of the world usually goes along. Upper Volta said, henceforth, it wanted to be called Burkina Faso, and so Burkina Faso
Bearing loads on the back the way his ancestors did fifteen thousand years ago, the Bearing loads on the back the way his ancestors did fifteen thousand years ago, the Nepali porter carries an evolutionary legacy as well as a modern-day burden. Treating his condition would also cure the socio-econom
At the sacred site of Siddhartha Gautam's birth, archaeologists run amok, architects are needlessly ostentatious and sects outspend each other. The meaning of the dharma is greatly diluted.
A Report on the Fourth International Conference on Buddhist Women.
While the hill council elections in Ladakh made the headlines, the summer of 1995 also saw in Leh the Fourth
An annual conference which has its downside, but the ups seem to more than make up for it.
Does Conferencing on South Asia provide "intellectual fun?" It does,
If you want to see Calcutta as it was in the 1950s, visit Rangoon. With its crumbling Victorian buildings and leafy boulevards, Rangoon feels like a backwater, and in many
Doon School Wants a Taste of SAARC
India's elite send their children to the Doon School, at the idyllic foothills of Garhwal, so that they are groomed to
The extraction of the Tharu is veiled in the haze of undocumented history. It is true that life is not permanent and history is not destiny, but it is nevertheless useful to ask, Who are the Tharu?
