The Sri Lankan military won the war against the Tamil Tigers over six months ago. But since that time, the island has been steadily losing the peace that the people
Setting aside the visual repulsion, the macabre excess and the gluttony for slaughter, Rabi Thapa investigates the logistical details involved in managing the 2009 Gadhimai Mela.
While Arundhati Roy’s collection of essays reveals critical political truths and the acts of violence India has witnessed, it also raises questions about the elite practice of literary catharsis and the motives behind activist writing
On 15 August 2009, a policeman was suspended in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, the epicentre of one of the fiercest ongoing conflicts between India's Maoists, the armed vigilante group
