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Table Of Contents

June 2008

Cover

Glocalising growth and accepting the corporation

      By: Sujeev Shakya

The corporate world will both dominate and integrate the Southasian agenda of economic growth.


Analysis

The Eastern Province gets going (or does it?)

      By: Mirak Raheem



Bookshelf



Essay

Critical thinking in wartime

      By: Thushara Hewage and Ahilan Kadirgamar



Fiction

Memory is a collective ocean

      By: M Hussanan


Opinion

Beyond treaties




On the way up

Three feet of sovereignty

      By: Kanak Mani Dixit

Review

Brave new world. Review of films Race and Tashan

      By: Milind Wani

Pitfalls of hollow hope

      By: Aditya Adhikari

Review of book "Time treks:The uncertain future of old and new despotions" By: Ashis Nandi

Warts and all: 'The World Is What It Is: The authorised biography of V S Naipaul'



Time and a place

Uneasy dreams of Bundi

      By: Charukesi Ramadurai

Southasiasphere

Life on the edge

      By: CK Lal

Southasian Briefs

Round-up of regional news


Report

A mini-Taliban state in making

      By: Muddassir Rizvi

The neighbour's fence

      By: Raju Das


Life in a BOX

      By: Sriram Ananthanarayan


A Burmese consolidation of authoritarianism


Reflections

Finding Maraland

      By: Anirban Datta-Roy




Photo Feature

Building a democracy



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.
More

Online Poll

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