Anand Patwardhan is the best of the investigative, consciousness-raising, activist documentary filmmakers who are making a mark in India today. In fact, it is said, he helped fashion the very
Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams
by Patrick McCully
Zed Books, London, 1996
The book makes an overwhelming argument against dams; but it is equally possible to
In late July this year, international television networks flashed pictures of a sensational ´show trial´ of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot being conducted by his own mutinous troops. As the
"Mao and Chou En-lai were great leaders. Your Nehru was not."
The year was 1966. The Cultural Revolution was at its peak, and both the Naxalbari upris-ing as
When the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) declared a "People´s War" in February 1996 and attacked police posts in some areas in the Nepali hills, it came
Colombo has been a traditional friend and New Delhi a friend in need of this strategic yet vulnerable republic, the smallest member of SAARC.
There is no record of when
The Conditions of Listening: Essays on Religion, History and Politics in South Asia
by Richard Burghart
Edited by C. J. Fuller and Jonathan Spencer
Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996
