My friends from the vast city drive to a dirty town at the
base of a hill on a weekend at the fag end of summer.
Everything is distance, the
Inventing Boundaries—Gender, Politics and the Partition of India Edited by Mushirul Hasan Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2000 ISBN: 019 565103 0
Pakistan came into being not simply because
The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland by Willem van Schendel, Wolfgang Mey Aditya Kumar Dewan White Lotus Press, Bangkok, 2000 ISBN: 974-8434-98-2
A pictorial narrative
When two sworn and once-powerful enemies are in trouble, what do they do? Become friends, of course.
These are strange times for Pakistan. A military government announces a grassroots
The Eppawalans' environment is Safe, all credit to local activism.
it was the common man's victory. For the seven residents of Eppawala, the judgement by Sri Lanka&
South Asia does not have clear guidelines for medical research. Multinational firms eager to push their products take advantage of a 'drug-naive' population.
How long have you
Malaria and TB remain the biggest killers in a militarised region that gives scant priority to health care.
There are some legacies of the past that refuse to be showpieced
The South Asian response to AIDS is still mired in denial, ignorance and wishful thinking. But with more than a million AIDS orphans in the region, it is time the
It was bound to happen. After gorging himself on all the GK books available in the plush jungle flora and getting some from Bangalore, Koose ("hernia" in one
