South Asia's blurred cultural boundaries are being given sharp edges with frontiers full of patrolling soldiers, the raising of border security forces, and even barbed barricades and floodlights.
I have been familiar with the writings of Professsor Mushirul Hasan, eminent social historian, where he comes across as an intellectual and a humanitarian. He is also the same sensitive
THE HIMAL ROUNDTABLE ON RE-CONCEPTUALISING SOUTH ASIA (18-19 NOVEMBER 2001)
Why do the people of South Asia, who constitute more than one-fifth of all humanity, remain so
The installation of a new government in Sri Lanka after a bruising general election last month offers a measure of hope to a war weary nation. The election pitted the
So they're going to cover the Taj Mahal in a bed sheet. Good move. It shows there are some people in the political leadership of the north Indian
Now that the bombing is over and Osama and Omar have evacuated themselves, Afghanistan will once again recede from our mindset. But we still do not know Afghanistan. In an
