President Rajapakse’s belated promise to resettle expelled northern Muslims by May 2010 will do little to ameliorate growing tensions.

emUp-country Tamil plantation workers remain a subjugated community, treated as little more than bonded labour. The current political foment includes opportunities for change./em

emThe pivotal battle of Elephant Pass, during August 1991, brought a sea change in the minds and lives of those living in Jaffna./em

emUniversity of Jaffna´s/emem potential as a centre of debate and nonaligned camaraderie for pluralism and human rights./em

emEven as the people of Jaffna make use of their new freedoms of movement, they are confronted with the effect of decades of political stagnation./em

The challenges President Rajapakse--and Sri Lanka--will face in a post-war milieu.

NSA Shiv Shankar Menon will have to address the need for coherence in India´s foreign policy and rethinking towards its neighbours.

The US has intensified unmanned aerial attacks in Waziristan, though they seem ineffective in destroying militant networks.

emDespite what seems to have been movement on longstanding bilateral issues during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent trip to India, the responsibility is now on New Delhi to reciprocate. /em

The president now has to set out ruling, and healing, a divided island. Will he?

emDo the recent attacks against Southasian students in Australia constitute hate crimes or sporadic violence? And has the reaction been more harmful than the incidents themselves?/em

emElections are still supposed to be taking place in Burma this year – sometime – though the outcome is already mostly known./em

emThe future of the ‘new Nepal’ is in the hands of the Maoist ex-combatants./em

emSinhala-language literature remains in a crippling relationship with nationalism./em

It is not only time for Nepal and India to review the 1950 bilateral treaty, but also to redefine larger bilateral relations with sensitivity and mutual accommodation.

It is not only time for Nepal and India to review the 1950 bilateral treaty, but also to redefine larger bilateral relations with sensitivity and mutual accommodation.

The absurd condemnation of Western classical music as ‘alien’ led to its calamitous decline in India, which is only now being reversed.

Understanding hitherto obscure personalities and their perceptions might bring forth the different truths of Kashmir.

The master psychiatrist had one of his most transformational experiences floating high above Ceylon.

emCaught in the Darjeeling Hills with the wrong clothes./em