The new Jana Sabha system of government looks set to gut the powers of local-level state structures in Sri Lanka, strengthening the hands of the Colombo regime.
After living for three years in Kolkata during the mid-1980s, when I returned to Kathmandu and started re-familiarising myself with the Nepali capital I would often be struck by commonalities
The agreement between the Trinamool and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha on a new administrative set-up for the Darjeeling Hills seems to be the prelude to the replay of a drama that will once again cheat the people of Darjeeling and the Nepali-speaking Gorkhalis all over India.
Serious obstacles remain in moving forward on the peace process in Nepal. Will the impossibility of extending the Constituent Assembly beyond six months force the Maoists and the other parties to a compromise?
In the early 19th century, the Southasian diasporas remained actively engaged with political struggles in their lands of origin. Today this has morphed into an obsession with economic returns.
The crisis in Manipur is based in the Imphal government's inability to regard all the state's population as its own, and its indifference towards Naga concerns.
Indra Bahdur Kapchake
The news item in the papers in late January was brief and perfunctory. A 55-year-old man had been run over by a bus in the eastern Nepal
