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SHANGRILA NO MORE, SHANGRILA, STILL

Nepal is little understood by outsiders because it was not colonised — the reason why there was not enough written about it till the mid-20th century. The country is also

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 2001

HINDUS AND THE STATE

Within weeks of coming to power, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led government in Dhaka finds itself mired in a crisis of its own making. The ham-handed manner in

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Dec 2001

SHAKE HANDS

The last SAARC summit was cancelled at India's behest because Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee did not want to shake hands with General Pervez Musharraf, who had just

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 2001

SAARC SANS TERRORISM

After many a hiccup, the SAARC summit scheduled for 4-6 January will finally happen at a difficult time in the entire region's history. There is an epic

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 2001

The globalisation of Hypocrisy

Call this the double standards decade, or century, or millennium. Or call it an unrecognizable transformation of regional geo-politics post-11 September. For decades, India spoke loftily from the

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 2001

A leader looks back

Atmabrittanta: Late Life Recollections By B.P. Koirala (Compiled by Ganesh Raj Sharma translated by Kanak Mani Dixit)

By Surendra Mohan

/ 1 Nov 2001

How can one live this way?

My Migrant Soul Bangladesh, 2000 Colour, Beta-SP/PAL, 35′ Bengali, Direction: Yasmine Kabir

By Anagha Neelakantan

/ 1 Nov 2001

Cinema, Benegal and Reality

Shyam Benegal is one of the major personalities of the "new cinema" in India. His father gifted him a movie camera when he was twelve, which is when

By Nihal Rodrigo

/ 1 Nov 2001

Transparent donors and development dogma

In recent years, the donor-led chorus on good governance (i.e. reduced corruption) has been gathering unprecedented momentum. "Transparency" and "accountability", the twin mantras of

By Aqil Shah

/ 1 Nov 2001

Nepal’s Maobaadi

Beginning or an end? In a scene from The Killing Terraces, a documentary screened at the inaugural of Film South Asia 2001, director Dhurba Basnet captures the cold fury of

By C K Lal

/ 1 Nov 2001

Whither the Afghan war?

After nearly a month of US-led military strikes in fi.Afghanistan, the future of the country is less certain now than at any time since 1996. The Taliban emerged

By Abbas Husain

/ 1 Nov 2001

Engineered cotton and manufactured consent

This year's southwest monsoons had already advanced on the western Indian peninsula and agricultural operations were well underway, when the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), constituted by the

By Michelle Chawla and Hemant Babu

/ 1 Nov 2001