By remaining firmly within a conventional military mindset, the LTTE may have missed – for good – an opportunity to make substantive political gains.

Despite the importance of the clashes at Khara and Pili in turning the trends of Nepal’s decade-long war, both sides have worked to bury the memory of these battles.

The blame is widespread, even as the results, thus far, are very clear.

The strategies and tactics of the Naxalites are there for all to see, but the Indian establishment is yet to understand this agenda of ‘protracted warfare’.

An emancipatory politics cannot liberate unless it confronts the patriarchy within.

The reasons behind Southasia’s current lack of an ‘international’ city can be traced back through millennia of popular distrust of urban settlement.

Thuingaleng Muivah, 73, the general secretary of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim, Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) , recently in Delhi, spoke with Kekhrie Yhome to reminisce about his war experiences and current hopes.strong /strong

Bangladeshi academics must reach out to combat rising violence and intolerance – or are they part of the problem?

Whose remains lie in the thousands of unmarked graves across Kashmir?

The frustration of and with activism on disappearances in Southasia.

The Young Communist League of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is a paramilitary organisation, and one that follows the history of such groups elsewhere. But how will it evolve as the ‘mother’ party seeks to demilitarise?

Even as India struggles with the issues of federalism, forces of globalisation are making matters more complex.

Issues of population, backed by misleading and incorrect use of data, have surfaced as powerful tools in the service of modern-day fundamentalisms.

Can the Calcutta Stock Exchange revive and relive its glory days?

On 15 August, more than four months after the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) emerged far ahead of the other parties in elections to the Constituent Assembly, the longtime Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal (aka ‘Prachanda’) was overwhelmingly voted in by his colleagues to become the first prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.