Making it happen in Kashmir
Sri Lanka is moving ahead with path-breaking peace talks. At the northern end of South Asia, the relative success of the legislative assembly elections provides New Delhi with an opportunity to revise its long-hardened policy …
Praful Bidwai | Nov 01, 2002
River ways
Being taken captive with considerable hospitality by would-be émigrés, taking a boat ride up the swollen Ganga delta, and touring Dhaka's richest neighbourhood prove that travel in Bangladesh will be many things, but never a …
Andrew Nash | Nov 01, 2002
The Sweet Perfume of Numafung
A feature film from Nepal remains ethnographically sensitive and provides a window to the specificities of the patriarchy that controls rural life in one corner of the country.
Seira Tamang | Nov 01, 2002
Development critique: Blight in donor’ed Bangladesh
Donor agencies regularly charge their host governments and bureaucracies of corruption, but what about the lack of accountability of the agencies themselves? In Dhaka, the donor elite is beginning to be taken on.
Salim Rashid | Nov 01, 2002
Development critique: From evil state to civil society
Two decades of NGO-led development in Nepal has been accompanied by a steady privatisation of the state's welfare functions and an erosion of community institutions. A retrospective assessment of the impact of NGO activity.
Saubhagya Shah | Nov 01, 2002
‘Holy’ cow and ‘unholy’ dalit
The bovine becomes divine, the cow becomes 'mother', the untouchables get dehumanised.
Siriyavan Anand | Nov 01, 2002
LIBERATION OF THE CHILD DOMESTIC
The closets of millions in middle class South Asia contain a dirty little secret, – the treatment of children who are harnessed to work as domestics. Can we go beyond bemoaning the situation, and do …
T Mathew | Nov 01, 2002
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