Ashis Nandy
The creeping crypto-nationalist cuisine
There is a radical shift in food culture underway in Southasia, even though there is nothing that you could identify as a regionwide cuisine.
Nov 20, 2006
The ambivalence about Gandhi
Southasia's difficulties with Gandhi's legacy.
Mar 24, 2006
Nuclearism, genocidal mentality and psychic numbing
On the psychopathology of the nuclear-arms race.
Jul 01, 1998
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