The town as musical score
Ritual music has historically played a crucial role in giving urban space a transcendental meaning. This link is on the verge of being broken.
Gert-Matthias Wegner | Jan 30, 2011
Living in the global glasshouse
An open letter to Sir Arthur C Clarke.
Nalaka Gunawardene | Jan 29, 2011
Old bounds, new art
Young women are at the forefront of Kabul's modern art.
Mujib Mashal | Jan 29, 2011
The void of Nagarjuna
At a time when Buddhist teachings were under threat from multiple directions, the 'second Buddha' did much to revive and build upon them.
Namit Arora | Jan 29, 2011
The paars of Mannar
Although things have gone quiet for the past half-century, the pearl fishery of Ceylon was known around the world for millennia.
Richard Boyle | Jan 29, 2011
The developmentalisation of Nepal
Donor assistance would be more effective when accompanied by a sense of accountability and elimination of the middleman.
Hemant R Ojha | Jan 29, 2011
Roads and redistributive injustice
To try and disallow people from jaywalking is an encroachment on the commons.
Garga Chatterjee | Jan 29, 2011
Doublethinking famine
George Orwell's potent rejection of censorship originated with the conflict between his wartime experience as propagandist to the Empire and his conviction that colonialism was responsible for hunger in British India.
Madhusree Mukerjee | Jan 29, 2011
Kagyupa only
A creeping clampdown on Christianity in Bhutan poses the serious question of whether the kingdom has really set itself on the path to secular democracy.
I P Adhikari | Jan 29, 2011
Unsettled border
New Delhi has begun a frantic military build-up in the eastern Himalaya, based on the army chief's interests and perceived Chinese deployments in north Tibet.
Sarbari Bhaumik | Jan 29, 2011
Arunachal justice
The state finally has a jail, but it remains far from adequate.
Teresa Rehman | Jan 29, 2011
The simulated politics of diaspora
If you listen to nationalists within the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, it's the mid-1970s and a Tamil Eelam is right around the corner.
Nirmala Rajasingham | Jan 29, 2011
Plenum fiasco
While the recent meeting of Nepal's Maoists was supposed to offer clarity and energy for the party's future strategy, it did neither.
Post Bahadur Basnet | Jan 29, 2011
Naya Bihar: Nitish’s next yatra
Bihar's chief minister was able to convince voters that he was changing the state for the better — and they rewarded him overwhelmingly.
Abhay Mohan Jha | Jan 29, 2011
In many dimensions
Faiz's poetry is the cherished legacy of Southasia.
Sheel Kant Sharma | Jan 29, 2011
‘Bol’, the Nepali people!
Faiz's progressive writings have great relevance in Nepal today, when a new constitution is being drafted amidst a troubled peace process.
Gauri N Rimal | Jan 29, 2011
From home to the world
Faiz Ahmed Faiz's internationalist vision was based on working-class movements and the struggles of colonised peoples everywhere.
Ali Mir and Raza Mir | Jan 29, 2011
Subsumed by history and nation
Where does Faiz the poet and pan-Southasian Marxist end and Faiz the Pakistani begin? This is a question to which Bangladeshis, among others, still seek an answer.
Afsan Chowdhury | Jan 28, 2011
Dipped in the heart’s blood
Faiz's English-language prose, on the whole, does not carry the resonance of his Urdu poetry.
Rakhshanda Jalil | Jan 27, 2011
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