A journey through English-language publishing in India.

The book in India, old and new.

Even as numerous infrastructural challenges remain to be surmounted, India’s already booming books industry looks poised to cross new frontiers.

English-language publishing in India has come of age.

Who are editors, and what are they good for?

Pakistan’s production of books is tied to educational publishing, but the future beckons.

A little island plans big.

Without the colonial baggage, publishing in Nepal remains dominated by the vernacular.

The graphic novel in India.

How to connect discerning readers with discerning titles?

It appears certain that Mamata’s party will win the West Bengal assembly elections, but the Left Front will remain a power-in-waiting.

The Jaitapur project is a test case for nuclear power in India – and, as seen in recent protest violence, for the popular opposition to it.

The many complications of India’s anti-corruption movement.

The extended mandate for Nepal’s Constituent Assembly ends on 28 May.

Is the Nepali economy booming or crashing?

Burma is doing both better and worse than is often discussed – a lack of information that makes it difficult to ascertain how the progressive and human-rights concerned international community should now be dealing with the country.

The intellectual crisis of reporting on Burma by the International Crisis Group.

The unseemly termination of Muhammad Yunus’s career at Grameen only highlights the deep problems faced by microcredit internationally.

Rabindranath Tagore towered over the landscape of the Subcontinent, and he still has more to give the world in his 150th birth anniversary year.

Celebrating a Punjabi artist through his letters.

Over-adulation of Tagore has much to do with Bengali anxiety about rationality.