States of denial: AIDS and South Asia
Each of South Asia's national governments has approached the spiralling AIDS crisis with its own unique blend of belated actions, hamstrung policies, and official denials. The window for containing the disease's spread is quickly closing, …
Prakash Gupta | Mar 26, 2003
Uprooted in the Northeast
The imbalance of rights, ethnic claims and histories of dispossession.
Sanjib Baruah | Mar 01, 2003
The dark white shroud
The fog over the populated plains of northern South Asia is thicker and lasts longer than in earlier decades but few are bothered to locate the cause behind this distressing trend. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions …
Shruti Debi | Mar 01, 2003
Nothing free or fair about it
A complicated and veiled system of tariffs allows Western countries to protect their tiny farming populations while millions of farmers in developing countries are swamped under a tide of cheap imports. Such systemic hypocrisy in …
Devinder Sharma | Mar 01, 2003
Many folds of the faith
South Asian Islam's varied and multiple forms.
Yoginder Sikand | Mar 01, 2003
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