Table Of Contents
June 2007
Analysis
A soundtrack for a foreign existence
By: Rahul GiriFor a new generation of Southasians, particularly those growing up in the diaspora, music plays an important role in adapting old traditions to new realities
The Vaan Puligal takes off
By: D.B.S. JeyarajBy demonstrating their air capability, the Tamil Tigers have succeeded in changing the dynamics in Sri Lanka’s conflict – momentarily, it seems.
King Mayawati
By: Pratap SomvanshiMayawati has turned India’s electoral politics on its head, and not many saw it coming. She now has her sights focused on the larger prize – prime minister of India.
Mediafile
Tit bits from Southasian region
Cover
The anger of Bangladesh’s non-elite
By: Afsan ChoudharyVery little can shock Bangladeshis today and so they watch with bemusement the games among those who would rule. With Parliament never having been functional, the true meaning of ‘political democracy’ needs better explanation before the country’s poor will appreciate its inherent promises.
Inflation up, government down
By: Amer AhmedThe survival of Bangladesh’s unelected interim government will be based largely on its stewardship of the country’s economy
Testing time for Dhaka’s media
By: Asif SalehBangladeshis have been looking to the press for leadership in a time of military rule, but the journalists have allowed themselves to be bullied by populism and cowed by fear of authority.
Secretly selling Biman
By: Joseph, Rubana, Mashuqur Rahman, Shameran Abed, Timothy SowulaEssay
Dreaming without subtitles
By: Sumana Roy‘Fusion music’ is a much-abused, little-understood term. But at least Amit Chaudhuri understands its inherent promise, as he presents the music of the early-21st-century urban Indian.
Report
12 May: the bloodshed and watershed
By: Q Isa DaudpotaWith his miscalculation over the sacking of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, General Musharraf may have hastened the end of his reign.
Sighting
An ‘agent’ of Kashmir
Southasian Briefs
Tit bits from Southasian region
Southasiasphere
Remember the farmer
Special Report
Repatriation or resettlement, Resolving the Lhotshampa dilemma
By: Himali DixitSeeking a win-win-win solution: An interview with Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
Remember the farmer
Seeking a win-win-win solution: An interview with Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
Marking time in Kashmir’s beautiful prison
By: Riyaz MasroorThe ‘Pakistani line’ is finding favour in Kashmir, with the demand for demilitarisation and self governance blurring the divide in the Kashmiri polity between pro-India and anti-India camps
Time and a place
Monsoon memories
Web Exclusive
In the issue, Laxmi Murthy writes on the legacy, and the continued relevance, of the Women's Movement, but Ashley Tellis faults her for mischaracterising the history of the feminism and defends the new spaces of liberation feminists of late have created.
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Iqbal Khattak argues that weak civilian administrations and inability to carry out simultaneous campaigns in strategic districts hamper a military victory to Pakistan’s militancy woes.
Amnesty International's suspension of Gita Sahgal reminds us of the importanance of objectivity, argues Joseph Mathai, and imparts an urgent lesson on the need for clarity on Maoist violence in India
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