Sri Lanka's defence secretary, Gothabaya Rajapakse, has publicly stated his support for media censorship, the criminalisation of defamation and the prosecution of two media institutions for "critical
I grew up in what, in those days, could be called an almost perfectly middle-class Bengali family, one that abided by a set of even more perfected middle-class
The Elephant, the Tiger,and the Cell Phone:
Reflections on India, the emerging 21st-century power
by Shashi Tharoor
Arcade, 2007
Tharoor, a lifelong UN man whose bid to be
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
directed by Tim Supple
sponsored by the British Council
If in 2006 Vishal Bharadwaj transported "Othello" into the brown badlands
THE MALDIVES/INDIA
Mr Sustainability, Mr Friendship
Honouring his efforts to promote sustainable development practices and climate-change awareness, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was recently awarded the Sustainable Development Leadership
In Calcutta, the very mention of the Sundarban, the massive mangrove forest that straddles the India-Bangladesh frontier, ignites immediate conversations about a broad range of wildlife – the Royal Bengal
Even as Southasians watched in disbelief the crossborder chase of Amit Kumar, the disgraced transplant doctor, as he fled from his Gurgaon office to the Chitwan jungles of southern Nepal
There are two specific strategies at work in India's queer-rights movement. On the one hand is an attempt to create and increase the social and cultural visibility
Nepal was recently witness to a victory of sorts for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and inter-sex (LGBTI) communities. It was an undeniably historic day on 21 December 2007,
If same-sex politics are to have any effect in Southasia, the sexuality 'movements' in the region need to move out of the arena of funding and into the sphere of independent thinking
The discussion of sexual desire as sexual 'identity' in LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) intellectual and activist circles is something that is argued with rather than argued about.
