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Joypurhat kidney sale

Has outlawing the trade in organs created a lucrative, and dangerous, black market in Bangladesh?

| Dec 01, 2011

Silent fields

Walking the unmarked graves of Jammu & Kashmir.

| 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.

| Dec 01, 2011

The royal ‘we’

Agony and anticipation as Bhutan's king marries his queen.

| Dec 01, 2011

Renting wombs

The booming surrogacy industry in India is rife with unanswered ethical, economic and political questions.

| 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.

| Oct 01, 2011

Exhuming Accountability

Conference on transitional justice in Southasia | Hosted by Himal Southasian and the International Center for Transitional Justice.

| 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.

| Jun 27, 2006

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