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Table Of Contents

March 2008

On the way up

The newest national anthem

      By: Kanak Mani Dixit.

Review

Reconciling tradition'The Last Brahmin"

      By: Aditya Adhikari

Southasian Shakespearewallah:“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

      By: Charukesi Ramadurai

Bookshelf


Reflections

Beyond the Jhalla

      By: Anirban Banerjee





Southasian Briefs

News about Southasia


Cover


Report

Ballot power in Pakistan

      By: Massoud Ansari

After the cull

      By: Saad Hammadi

Transplanting problems

      By: Shahzada Irfan Ahmed

Time and a place

Surrounded by Sundarban

      By: Somnath Mukherji

Analysis

Remembering Burma, Overturning the bowl

      By: May Ng

The limits of electoral saffron

During the year leading up to India’s Lok Sabha elections of May 2009, the BJP’s attempts to avert another electoral disaster will become increasingly frantic.

Photo Feature

In Hijraporti



Web Exclusive

Jouno kormir shantan by Debolina Dutta and Oishik Sircar

Since 2005, children of sex workers have been highlighting their misrepresentation in films like Born into Brothels.

(Related stories in our August edition)

More
Indigenising extremism – Iqbal Khattak writes about how the rise of the so-called ‘Punjabi Taliban’ is another step in the escalating spiral of extremist violence in Pakistan.
Minor offence – Dilnaz Boga on the children who have been gunned down since January in the escalating cycle of violence in Jammu & Kashmir.
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Online Poll

Bandhs: 'Coercion' or 'Democratic protest'?
Coercion & blackmail
My democratic right.
I sit on the fence.
Holiday! :-)
 
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