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Joypurhat kidney sale
Has outlawing the trade in organs created a lucrative, and dangerous, black market in Bangladesh?
Saad Hammadi | Dec 01, 2011
The radicals in the Maoists
A political agreement signed on 1 November was finally supposed to allow former Maoist combatants in Nepal to move ahead with their lives. Instead, the response has been mostly anger and accusations of duplicity.
Post Bahadur Basnet | Dec 01, 2011
The royal ‘we’
Agony and anticipation as Bhutan's king marries his queen.
Roger Beaumont | Dec 01, 2011
Renting wombs
The booming surrogacy industry in India is rife with unanswered ethical, economic and political questions.
Vrinda Marwah | Oct 01, 2011
Upending ULFA
Surprise negotiations with ULFA aside, the Indian government’s effort to contain and control insurgency in Assam is unlikely to meet the hopes and expectations that have energised the peace process.
Sanjib Baruah | Oct 01, 2011
Exhuming Accountability
Conference on transitional justice in Southasia | Hosted by Himal Southasian and the International Center for Transitional Justice.
The Editors | Mar 01, 2007
Blurry reflections: Differing media accounts of Balochistan
A study of recent discussions on Balochistan in the Indian and Pakistani press indicates a lingering crossborder neurosis about the other country's interference.
Subarno Chattarji | Jun 27, 2006
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The limited genius of Geoffrey Bawa
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Interview: The precarity of Afghan migrants in Pakistan
Political scientist and author Sanaa Alimia speaks of the long history of racial profiling, harassment and deportation of Afghan migrants, in the context of Pakistan’s recent crackdown
