How much difference a year can make! The walls of closed society seem to be falling in Burma. But will the army remain silent?

Is Aung San Suu Kyi a pawn in the generals’ attempt to neutralise Burma’s ethnic rebellions?

Trying to understand the vagaries of the new Burma.

Are the Burmese reforms for real?

Agony and anticipation as Bhutan’s king marries his queen.

A political agreement signed on 1 November was finally supposed to allow former Maoist combatants in Nepal to move ahead with their lives. Instead, the response has been mostly anger and accusations of duplicity.

Walking the unmarked graves of Jammu & Kashmir.

Has outlawing the trade in organs created a lucrative, and dangerous, black market in Bangladesh?

As a new government is formed in Kathmandu, how can Nepal not only learn from the changes underway in Bihar, but capitalise on them?

The push for time off.

A Goan family’s life in Japanese-occupied Burma.

The Ascent of Rum Doodle is a widely appreciated mountaineering satire – but of what, exactly?

Naiyer Masud’s multi-story Adabistan