Defenders of the Establishment: Ruler-Supportive Police Forces of South Asia
by K.S. Dhillon
Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 199_
pp 290, INR 300
Little Lanka's investments in sports paid off at the Bangkok Asian Games. Now, its athletes have their sights on the Sydney Olympics next year.
The 13th Asian Games
It does not matter whether they are Muslim or Hindu, conservative forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India seem to have found a common enemy: Women.
One of the first things
Interview with Shabana Azmi
Tim Sebastian talked to Shabana Azmi in London for the BBC's Hardtalk Interview just after the film, Fire, was released in India. Excerpts:
* Congratulations
Bombay and Karachi. once acclaimed as the two most cosmopolitan and dynamic commercial centres of South Asia, have been reduced to clusters of warring, sectarian ghettoes. Violent political goons, extortionists
India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium
by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with Y.R. Rajan
Penguin Books, New Delhi, 1998
pp xvi+312, INR 395
A Nepali delegate observes a rare get together of Indians and Pakistanis in Peshawar.
The sight at the Atari-Wagah border between the Indian and Pakistani Punjabs was unusual. Pakistani porters
We asked for permission to cross the border on foot or by car, but were told that Indians and Pakistanis could not do this.
Taking off from Lahore airport, if
Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition
by Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition is a timely book for all
Since 13 April 1984, Indian and Pakistani troops have confronted each other, eyeball to eyeball, for control of the Siachen Glacier and its approaches in the eastern Karakoram mountain range,