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Nowhere to go

The collapse of the SAARC summit, and why no one particularly cares.

By C K Lal

/ 1 Jan 2003

Between Regionalism and the Nation-State

THE HIMAL ROUNDTABLE ON RE-CONCEPTUALISING SOUTH ASIA (18-19 NOVEMBER 2001) Why do the people of South Asia, who constitute more than one-fifth of all humanity, remain so overwhelmingly, materially poor?

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 2002

A touch of jadoo…

Reviving SAARC will be difficult but it can be done, says the former Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh. This time, however, government must play facilitator and let business and civil society

By Farooq Sobhan

/ 1 Jan 2002

Nepal, India and Area Studies

There is a lot of talk on the need to understand each other in South Asia, but strangely nothing is being done to promote area studies Take one instance: the

By Pratyoush Onta

/ 1 Jan 2002

RESUSCITATING SAARC AT Summit No. 11

SAARC is at such a point in its history that it must now be moving, and be seen to be moving, decisively forward. The alternative is regression and obsolescence The

By Sridhar K. Khatri

/ 1 Jan 2002

SHAKE HANDS

The last SAARC summit was cancelled at India's behest because Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee did not want to shake hands with General Pervez Musharraf, who had just

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 2001

SAARC SANS TERRORISM

After many a hiccup, the SAARC summit scheduled for 4-6 January will finally happen at a difficult time in the entire region's history. There is an epic war

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 2001

SOUTH ASIA AND THE SUMMITEERS

When the Indian prime minister and the Pakistani generalissimo met to talk in Agra, the leaders, spin-managers and commentators on both sides forgot one critical point: that both countries are

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 2001

She Said, He Said

Fact is, Hasina gives a hoot about the who or the how of running Pakistan. She is intensely focussed on the trial of her family's killers—her family

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 2000

Investing in investments

Less rhetoric; more political will. For the past decade, South Asia has been one of the fastest-growing regions in the world. Yet, the Subcontinent remains one of the world´s

By Waqar A Sheikh

/ 1 Sep 2000

Multilateral is better than bilateral

There is a clear danger of alienating the spirit of consensus on which the success of a larger South Asian free trade area will depend. It is no surprise that

By Dushni Weerakoon

/ 1 Sep 2000

Trade will bring us together

It is worth remembering that even as free trade makes the headlines, agreements by themselves are not likely to work the magic. For South Asia to unleash its long-suppressed economic

By Daniel Gay

/ 1 Sep 2000