Table Of Contents
January 2008
Bookshelf
Cover
Essay
Climate changes, flooding out and drying up in Southasia
By: Sunita Dubey and Ananth Chikkatur
Southasian Briefs
Tit bits from Southasian region
Reflections
The Bengali urban middle-class psyche
By: Garga Chatterjee, Priyanaka Nandy, Somanath Mukherjee
Report
Beyond the Bali-hoo
By: Kunda DixitThe right of return to Jaffna - The eviction and the exodus
By: Sharika Thiranagama
Special Report
Fat cats and the left rupture
By: Vijay PrashadGoodbye, apolitical fundamentalism
By: Sumit ChowdhuryIndustrialisation without employment
By: Amit Bhaduri
The oblivion of idealism
By: Ashok MitraThe questions of industrialisation
By: Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
No collateral damage
Mediafile
Tidbits from the Southasian region
Web Exclusive
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| Graffiti that reads Azaadi or Freedom on the footbridge over River Jhelum in Srinagar. Dilnaz Boga |
The Kashmiri and the Indian by Shivam Vij
People-to-people dialogue is the best way out of the Kashmir logjam.
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| The battle for bauxite – Sudha Ramachandran writes about the Dongria Kondhs of southern Orissa who are up in arms on the grounds that their land, culture and way of life, their very survival as a distinct tribe, is under serious threat from UK mining giant Vedanta Resources. |
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| Delayed transit – Saad Hammadi on the Nepal-Bangladesh transit trade agreement, the modalities of which have finally been worked out between the two countries. What remains to be seen now is how soon these agreements will be implemented. |
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The Caravan-Panos Special Assignment Fellowship for Print Journalists
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