The initial response of South Asian governments to AIDS when it appeared two decades ago was to hide behind the mantle of 'Asian morals' — a strategy that succeeded
A complicated and veiled system of tariffs allows Western countries to protect their tiny farming populations while millions of farmers in developing countries are swamped under a tide of cheap imports. Such systemic hypocrisy in international trade must be confronted for the sake of the global poor
What does the Homo Southasiaticus do to ward off the winter chill? He procures a length of cloth, ideally 6 inches by 166; places at neck so as to leave
South Asia is a basket with a regionful of problems, or a region with a basketful of problems, whatever. But the triumph of and challenge for our land is in
The royal palace in Kathmandu and the Maoists have agreed to a ceasefire without consulting the political parties. How now to bring them into the upcoming talks, and how does a king deal with rebels who want to abolish monarchy?
The recent formation of a government in Sindh involved hectic manipulations by Islamabad and low connivance at the provincial level. Out of the ensuing muddle of volatile and unstable alliances emerged a 31-year-old chief minister with little clout, a 38-year-old governor who just returned to Pakist
At half past noon on 8 January, the originals of Raja Harishchandra, Battleship Potemkin and Achhut Kanya were lost in a nitrate oxide-fuelled inferno in Pune.
Sri Lanka's 14 months of ceasefire have brought monumental changes in the lives of Tamils in the north and east. Challenges remain - both at the political level as well as at ground-level reality - but the foundation for a sustainable peace on the island has been laid. Some impressions of what Jaffa
Not very long back, a strange controversy engulfed the Indian health ministry prior to and during the Microsoft magnate's visit to the Subcontinent. The subject was HIV/AIDS
On 4 December 2002, India's finance minister, Jaswant Singh, presented his government's mid-term review in parliament, emphasising a need to boost private investment in agriculture
The 'Pravasi Bharatiya Divas' held in honour of the Indian diaspora at Delhi in early January 2003, and the announcement of a 'national day' commemorating the
