The current manner of democratic governance in Southasia came with the British, but did not depart with them. The countries that were under direct British rule inherited the institutions of
In 1977, the Left Front government came to power in West Bengal, and the world heard its loud proclamation: India is a semi-feudal, semi-capitalist society, and a state
If multi-party parliamentary democracy means giving the people a wide range of political choices, then there is plenty of it in India. The Indian citizenry can certainly have its
14 November 2007. The streets of Calcutta reverberated with the sound of the protesting footsteps of 60,000 ordinary citizens. The mammoth rally was organised to condemn the violence that
Rarely has there been such furore over something that is so little understood. Singur, north of Calcutta, and then Nandigram, located in Purbo Medinapur District of West Bengal, have become
Is like taking a ritual dip
In a dry riverbed.
– Nirmala Garg, Duniyadar
It was a sunny December morning in 2002 in Bangalore, and Professor Daya Krishna was speaking to
Experience makes one wise, and it is wisdom, in the Tennysonnian sense, that lingers. After his long innings in government service, the second book written by the former Secretary for
In the initial years of militancy in Kashmir in the early 1990s, the political violence often divided villages – and their inhabitants – into several fratricidal factions. The legacy of this persisted
Andhra Pradesh offers a good case study of the compulsions that underlie the choice of violent methods of struggle, as well as the unpleasant consequences of the decision to take
It was about three in the morning when Ali heard the rooster crowing. He was already awake. He had not slept well the previous night, contemplating the journey he would
In 2002, when Panos South Asia and Himal Southasian launched the first roundtable of senior journalists from India and Pakistan at Nagarkot in Nepal, we did not expect that our
