The BJP's weaknesses as a political party make it doubly dangerous as far as the non-Hindu minorities of India are concerned.
Of the many liturgies of nationalism
At the India International Centre by the Lodhi tombs in New Delhi, the watering hole of India's, and now South Asia's, diplo-academic elite, workshops are
Our travel writer planned to write about Sikkim as a destination but got diverted by an intriguing military-tourist to a Sikh soldier's shrine up by the India-
It's truce time in Sri Lanka. Even though the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been observing a unilateral ceasefire since Christmas Eve, which the government had
Traveling Film South Asia opens eyes by moving across borders
Last October in a crowded auditorium in Kathmandu, Shyam Benegal took the stage to announce the winners of the biannual
There is more to General Musharraf's pro-West, anti-mullah stance than meets the eye. He seeks the overseas blessings to keep Pakistani democracy at bay.
Marking Pakistan&
As the recent round of elections to the legislative assemblies of four states in India reconfirm the decline of the dominant-party system, it is time to reflect on its
From politicians to policy-makers and intellectuals to bureaucrats in Nepal, the news of Enron's arrival could not have come at a better time. In 1995 the World
The making and unmaking of the Dabhol project
In 1991, a minority Congress government, applauded by the ringmasters of the neo-liberal circus, embarked on the wholesale liberalisation of the
India is a billion-weak nation thirsting for truly international sporting glory. Every four years, the fact that Olympic success eludes India is lamented in public fora. Karnam Malleswari'
The ceasefire brokered by the Oslo diplomats is a practical document that seeks to learn from the specific Sri Lankan experience of the past, and it provides the best chance
