Start date: 7 December 2009
End date: 8 December 2009
Location: Negombo, Sri Lanka
Organized by LIRNEasia and supported by the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC)
Following in a long line of analysis, talk shows on television on several occasions over the past summer featured experts who made politically correct statements in favour of a series
Pilgrimage to Paradise:Sufi tales from Rumi
edited by Kamla K Kapur
Penguin, 2009
Rumi is undoubtedly one of the best-known of the Sufi masters. Even so, the public,
On 1 November, former Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah withdrew from Afghanistan´s contentious second round of polling, which would have pitted him against incumbent President Hamid Karzai for a
Self-proclaimed protectors of Hinduism in parts of South India have kicked up a row over inter-religious marriages, which they claim are designed to lure unsuspecting but romantic Hindu
Even as the Pakistan Army goes on an all-out offensive against home-grown militants, the insurgents themselves have stepped up their attacks on the Pakistani public.
Participants India: Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, executive editor, Kashmir Times Bharat Bhushan, editor, Mail Today
C Rammanohar Reddy, editor, Economic and Political Weekly
N Ravi, editor, The Hindu
Shravan Kumar Garg,
Like most words that mean little but pretend to say a lot, secular was one that I did not encounter by accident. Its meaning, and the shadows of its connotations,
