Computer Anthem: Have you saved, have you saved? Ludditespeak:We don´t shave, we don´t shave.

   

   

As Vasco da Gamas 500th anniversary is nearing, very thought of commemorating the fifth centenary of Vasco da Gamas arrival on Indias west coast has had people agitated. As in case of Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama is sorrounded by various controversy. Meanwhile, Portugal has undertaken a public-relations exercise by sending a lot of cultural groups to put up performances in Goa, and earn badly-needed goodwill in its former colony.

 

 

   

Don't worry. If they push you out, they also pull you in." Bombay (now officially Mumbai) is a city with an identity crisis; a city ex-periencing both a boom and a civic emergency. It’s the biggest, fastest, richest city in India. It held 12 million people at the last count – more than Greece – and 38 percent of the nation’s taxes are paid by its citizens. Yet half the population is homeless. In the Bayview Bar of the Oberoi Hotel you can order [a bottle of] Dom Perignon champagne for 20,250 rupees, more than one-and-a-half times the average annual income; this in a city where 40 percent of the houses are without safe drinking water.

Mediafile consists of news that were published in different magazines over the world regarding South Asia. This months mediafile consists of article about VAW, violence against women, Bhutanese red rice, Bhaktapur Municipality, Asian financial crash and many more.