The political process in Nepal is in shambles, even as the peace process holds. There is currently only a semblance of governance in place, while the activities of violent groups
Mohamed Nasheed 'Anni' created history on 11 November, when he was sworn in to office as the first democratically elected president of the Maldives. He had just been
While a timetable has now been announced for plugging the embankment breach on the Kosi, local communities are left to wonder – how much will it help?
As of mid-November,
Image By: Manjula Padmanabhan
Cartooning, stress and laughing at death.
There are two questions I used to be asked by journalists when they interviewed me as a cartoonist. The first
The concept of subtlety is extremely modern, one that has come into expression only over the last 150 years. It also carries with it certain notions that actually developed in
Nearly 600 delegates of exile Tibetans decided to follow the Dalai Lama's long-held moderate approach of the Middle Way after a week-long 'special meeting'
June, 1990. Following the publication of an article in the Sri Lanka daily The Island about the parliamentary elections of the Maldives that had taken place the previous year, the
Somewhere in international waters, close to the Pakistani coast, a Predator drone is launched from the USS Abraham Lincoln. The pilotless craft heads up over the beaches of Balochistan, and
Susurrus in the Skull
Rabindra K Swain
Authorspress, 2008
Even today, the situation surrounding English-language writing in Orissa is yet to progress beyond the scattered forays that were witnessed
Dateline 1857:
Revolt against the Raj
by Rudrangshu Mukherjee & Pramod Kapoor
Roli Books, 2008
From one of the most well-informed historians of the 1857 uprisings comes a lush
