Banishing brutality
Review of Jinee Lokaneeta's Transnational Torture: Law, violence, and state power in the United States and India
Prachi Patankar and Ahilan Kadirgamar | Dec 06, 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.
Post Bahadur Basnet | Dec 01, 2011
Music in a time of war
A Goan family's life in Japanese-occupied Burma.
Gerald D Souza | Dec 01, 2011
A Himalayan mystery – solved?
The Ascent of Rum Doodle is a widely appreciated mountaineering satire — but of what, exactly?
Don Messerschmidt | Dec 01, 2011
Building on Bihar
As a new government is formed in Kathmandu, how can Nepal not only learn from the changes underway in Bihar, but capitalise on them?
Blair Glencorse | Dec 01, 2011
An offer the minorities cannot refuse
Is Aung San Suu Kyi a pawn in the generals' attempt to neutralise Burma's ethnic rebellions?
Maung Zarni | Dec 01, 2011
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