In executing the 'Bali bombers' – Amrozi, Mukhlas and Samudra – on 9 November 2008, the Indonesian government seems to have fulfilled their desire to become martyrs. However, the executions
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All Illustrations by Bilash Rai
For the first time since 1992, the yearly seasonal barter trade between Indian and Tibet, through the Lipulekh Pass in Uttarakhand,
Right from the beginning, they said I was bound to have a career in photography – reporting from Balochistan, understudy for Raghu Rai, doing portraiture of Bollywood stars. You're
Polls are a celebration of democracy, particularly so because they decide the fate of governments, which affect the day-to-day lives of ordinary people. National parliamentary elections are about
Around this time last year, the political climate across Southasia looked grim. In Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto had just returned after years in exile, and had been greeted with bomb explosions
In 1933, the great economist John Maynard Keynes said, "I sympathise with those who would minimise, rather than with those who would maximise, economic entanglement among nations … let goods
The problem of conceptualising Asian-ness is that it is not a question of finding similarities, but of envisioning the coexistence of diversities.
All one, perhaps –
bell, mountain, tree
and
Ho hum. The end of another year, and another press freedom report is released. And, yet again, the 2008 Reporters without Borders certainly paints a gloomy picture of the region.
It is May, the wedding season in Garhwal, and the mountains reverberate with the sounds of drums and Scottish pipes. Colourful wedding parties can be seen winding their way through
Basu Kshitij: CPN (Maoists), Nepali Congress and CPN (UML), and their respective slogans – people's republic, democratic socialism and 'people's multi-party democracy'
Abin Shrestha:
