After the lengthy period of the Norwegian peace process, which informed commentators have termed no war in preference to peace, the return to outright war in Sri Lanka surprised few.
Despite the fact that they have been living in their respective countries for centuries, the Lhotshampa, Nepamul Bharatiya and Madhesis have in common the fact that they are all underdogs.
The Economic Survey released last February predicted that India would grow at 8.7 percent over 2007-8 – somewhat lower than the 9.4 percent by which it grew in 2006-7,
Whatever happened to Class?
Not so long ago, activists and intellectuals who regarded themselves as progressive had a pretty clear idea of what this entailed. Then, as now, it carried
What accompanies this movement is a complete loss of that primary sense of belonging included as the bedrock of human-rights guarantees: citizenship. In the context of the Holocaust in Europe,
Modern Southasia’s ‘cartographic anxiety’ is traceable directly to colonial-era machinations. It is time for the region’s people to make their own decisions about how to define their territories.
A listener's first encounter with Amit Chaudhuri's new album This Is not Fusion is mediated through its cover. An imagined hybrid animal is sculpted in dokra,
A full-bodied treatment of a story of physical passion – and such stories, great ones even, are not lacking in our literature – is unthinkable on the Indian screen … The scenes of
What is now called the Singur controversy was sparked off by the decision of the West Bengal government to acquire 997 acres (affecting approximately 12,000 owners) of agricultural land,
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the eastern Himalayan region was a hotbed of conflict as the indigenous communities pitched themselves against Tibetan Buddhist and Gorkhali hegemony. Hitherto unstudied manuscripts afford a new understanding of these rivalries, and of the life and work of a man who l
