India's Politics:
A view from the backbench
by Bimal Jalan
Penguin/Viking, 2007
William Fulbright's notion of expressing differences in a democracy as a matter of
"There goes the Ninja brigade again," was a familiar refrain among Anglophile folks during the six-month-long Lal Masjid/Jamia Hafsa crisis in Islamabad. For the vast
Kashmir Pending
by Naseer Ahmed and Saurabh Singh
Phantomville, 2007
There is a new 'phenomenon' currently doing the rounds with book lovers in India. It is apparently called
The De Werfkring restaurant, right next to the canal in the Dutch town of Utrecht, serves what its owners call "earth cuisine". This turns out to be vegetarian
For many Southasians, the image they hold of Manipuri women is one of strength, empowerment and activism. Northeast India in general is often depicted as a 'utopia' of
Communist Taliban
Upon reading Kanak Mani Dixit's article (June, "A tryst with Nepali destiny"), I was struck by the writer's optimism about 22 November
After six decades of controversy and 18 years of heightened conflict since the Kashmiri intifada began in 1989, Kashmir is a changed place. Forget the stereotype of a man dressed
Nepal's population as a whole harbours the dream of achieving wealth utilising the country's water resource. As for the political leadership, it desperately wants to make
