If past experiences are anything to go by, the increase in violence over the last several months in Sri Lanka will not have surprised many observers. All previous attempts at
Just 11 days before the Calcutta inauguration ceremony of the 1996 cricket World Cup – being co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan – a bomb exploded on 31 January in
India India heads down under Reports have recently surfaced of a top-secret project by the Indian government to lay claim to broad tracts of the Indian Ocean floor, where
A glance at the major acts of terror perpetrated by militants and rebels of all colours across Southasia in the decade from 1999 to 2008 can only induce horror. The
Another day, another Thursday. The Lounge Lizards, a certain trio, or Imran with his band, would sing for a blasé Dhaka crowd suffering from acute fatigue stemming from the chronic
Following millions of fellow Southasian citizens, this writer woke up early on the morning of 27 November to the horror of violence in Bombay. On television, I watched the images
On 26 November, as news channels in Pakistan began to flash breaking news of the attacks in Bombay, Pakistanis were, like Indians, instantly glued to their television sets. They stayed
The defining moment of the 26-29 November 2008 attacks on Bombay came the first night. We were a group of journalists standing at the Taj Mahal Hotel. We had
The reaction of the mainstream media in India to the mayhem in Bombay was Pavlovian: if there were explosions and innocent victims, then it must be Islamist 'terrorism'
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Known for his often controversial statements, Sri Lankan army chief Lieutenant-General Sarath Fonseka has again created a storm. Speaking
