Key lessons for dealing with the vagaries of the Kosi’s annual cycle are to be found in the myths and folklore of the North Indian plain.

Indian officials and administrators continue to plan ineffective flood-protection interventions along the Kosi, even though there is a straightforward solution.

Any change made to a river alters the structure of the entire system. In the Himalaya in particular, the consequences of doing so are just as great.

There’s more of one than the other in Sri Lanka today.

A tale about a Tibetan student in Delhi and his political growth as an exile.

A comprehensive tome on the rise and fall of empires.

This historic passage is again becoming dangerous – though this is nothing new.

Corporate monopoly over seeds is not the answer to the global food crisis, but rather an unacknowledged cause of it.

From the distance of centuries, the struggles of the East India Company to control its officials look depressingly familiar.

A mass campaign is needed to convince the Sinhalese majority that devolution and democratisation are in its interest and in the interest of Sri Lanka´s minorities.

In the effort to minimise the likelihood of another Satyam debacle, a few lessons are available from a country that has been reeling from its own corporate scandals – the United States.

With companies hardwired to make money, the impetus behind corporate social responsibility can only function as advertisement — largely empty and potentially misleading.

The longest, undivided, fully-clothed, shark-free mud-beach in the world.

Tejpal´s contemporary India masquerading as fiction.

Nearly a quarter-century after the first movement, the renewed agitation for a Gorkhaland state has reawakened old hopes.

While the Swat agreement indicates social regression it also holds out the hope for silencing the guns.

If any lesson is to come out of the current financial crisis, it is that the pipedream of corporate social responsibility needs to be shelved.

With the largest corporate fraud in its history, India has finally entered onto the global financial stage?