For people who live outside of the Kashmir Valley, cinema halls are generally places of lively entertainment, abuzz with queues and excited talk of the latest blockbusters. In Srinagar, however,
On 12 May, Pakistan had its Black Sabbath. It turned out to be more bizarre than the surreal happenings that had preceded it, which included the takeover of the sole
Sixty-year-old Egamabaram Palaniraja, the owner of Mythili Jewellers in the heart of Colombo, went missing on 12 September last year, along with his 23-year-old son Balasaravanan and employee, Ganesan Muhundan.
Last December, more than 1500 people living along the Burmese border in Manipur suddenly began leaving their villages, in flight from a counter-insurgency operation by the Indian Army against cadres
For the past four decades, the indigenous Santhals of Jaduguda, in Jharkhand's Singhbhum District, have lived in the massive shadow of the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL)
The Colombo government's new initiative to resettle displaced Sri Lankans has not only angered many of the people it is targeted to serve, but also fails to address
What do women writers talk about? If the South Asian Women Writers' Colloquium held in New Delhi recently is anything to go by, the answer is: everything. The subjects
It is never easy being Sri Lanka's president. The island's chief executive has to deal with a seemingly intractable civil war, a faltering foreign-aid-dependant economy and
As a military-backed interim government that suspended Bangladesh’s January elections mounts a massive anti-corruption crackdown under a state of emergency, Dhaka’s wealthy are feverishly abandoning luxury pets and toys that were once symbols of their power and opulence.
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After India's first, rather grudging, opening of the airwaves for community use in December 2002, it took four years of intense effort by advocacy groups
