March Issue!!!   Laxmi Murthy makes a case for the legacy and relevance of feminism and the Women's Movement in Southasia | Hartman de Souza observes how a conglomeration of mining companies, politicians and real-estate developers are drying up Goa's natural springs and wells in pursuit of iron | The adversity and achievements of a Tamil woman over the course of a century-long life mirror the tragedy of the Sri Lankan north. |   Web Exclusive   READ Meera Nanda's response to Vijay Prashad's review of he book, 'The God Market'! |   March Issue!!!   Laxmi Murthy makes a case for the legacy and relevance of feminism and the Women's Movement in Southasia | Hartman de Souza observes how a conglomeration of mining companies, politicians and real-estate developers are drying up Goa's natural springs and wells in pursuit of iron | The adversity and achievements of a Tamil woman over the course of a century-long life mirror the tragedy of the Sri Lankan north. |   March Issue!!!   Laxmi Murthy makes a case for the legacy and relevance of feminism and the Women's Movement in Southasia | Hartman de Souza observes how a conglomeration of mining companies, politicians and real-estate developers are drying up Goa's natural springs and wells in pursuit of iron | The adversity and achievements of a Tamil woman over the course of a century-long life mirror the tragedy of the Sri Lankan north. |   COMMENT   Ashley Tellis faults Laxmi Murthy's 'In defence of symbolism' for mischaracterising the history of the feminism |  

Table Of Contents

January 2008

Bookshelf



Cover


Essay

Climate changes, flooding out and drying up in Southasia

      By: Sunita Dubey and Ananth Chikkatur




Sighting

No chowkidar!

      By: Satyadeep S Chhetri



On the way up

Taslima and Aitzaz

      By: Kanak Mani Dixit

Reflections

The Bengali urban middle-class psyche

      By: Garga Chatterjee, Priyanaka Nandy, Somanath Mukherjee



Report

Beyond the Bali-hoo

      By: Kunda Dixit

The right of return to Jaffna - The eviction and the exodus

      By: Sharika Thiranagama



Time and a place

Survivorhood in Dardpora

      By: Sumona DasGupta



Review

Finessing fluid feuds

      By: G Narasimha Raghavan

'Khuda Ke Liye'

      By: Oishik Sircar



Analysis

Counting Muslim votes in Modi’s Gujarat

      By: V K Shashikumar



Southasiasphere

Life and the meaning of living

      By: CK Lal

Special Report

Fat cats and the left rupture

      By: Vijay Prashad

Goodbye, apolitical fundamentalism

      By: Sumit Chowdhury

Industrialisation without employment

      By: Amit Bhaduri


The oblivion of idealism

      By: Ashok Mitra

The questions of industrialisation

      By: Jayanta Bandyopadhyay


No collateral damage



Opinion

Of flags, faces and fascism

      By: Sumana Roy


Web Exclusive


Girija Prasad Koirala, (1925-2010),  four-time prime minister of Nepal, died just after noon on 20 March after a protracted illness. Credited with sculpting the peace deal that ended the decade-long Maoist insurgency, GP Koirala’s political career spanning more than 60 years is also a history of the movement for democracy in Nepal.
Read Kanak Mani Dixit's Obit: 'Southasian democrat dies at the helm'

Plus: Read 'GP: Man of the Moment', the introduction to Koirala's Simple Convictions: My Struggle for Peace and Democracy on the life, politics and legacy of GP Koirala

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Sophia Furber shines a light on the phenomenon of suicides by migrant workers in West Asia and probes the abuse and exploitation behind it.

PLUS in the story: Clips from Kesang Tseten's work-in-progress documentary Saving Dolma about Nepali migrant workers in the Gulf.

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