It is clear that there is a campaign of terror, not necessarily coordinated, underway against selected minorities in India. This has serious implications for the country´s democratic polity, one
Kashmir has moved a long way from enjoying the pride of place in newly independent India to being regarded by many Indians as a bad penny, a state which wants
The Pakistani film industry struggles for originality as pirated Indian movies steal the show.
What we today call Bollywood cinema is the common heritage of all those who contributed at
As Indian writing in English gains global recognition, assumptions about a singular “Indian” sensibility overlook class, gender and socio-political nuance in contemporary literary works
Most Indians believe that any debate on the Kargil war is unpatriotic or simply anti-national. Most Pakistanis believe that their prime minister is fighting a brave war, not only against
Gelling festive about nukes is one way of gelling nationalism going.
On 28 May 1998, the government of Pakistan followed that of India's and tested nuclear devices. While
An intellectual unintimidated by power or authority
Eqbal Ahmad, perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of Asia and Africa, has died, aged 66, in Islamabad following an operation
States, Citizens and Outsiders: The Uprooted Peoples of South Asia
edited by Tapan Bose and Rita Manchanda
South Asia Forum for Human Rights.
Kathmandu, 1997
The pursuit of nuclear weapons in the Subcontinent is the moral equivalent of civil war: the targets the rulers have in mind are, in the end, their own people.
The
"Kalapani"- waters – the term has an ominous ring to it in much of South Asia due to its association with the hellish colonial-era penitentiary in the Andamans.
