Himal Southasian (Page 380)

“Pakistan and India want Kashmir for themselves”

Released from jail on 4 May, Mohammed Yaseen Malik is the charismatic and straight-talking leader of the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), and chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

The Tiger’s trap

In the last 15 years of the Tamil-Sinhala conflict, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been prisoners of their militarised, brutalised and violence-driven pursuit for a separate

By Shastri Ramachandran

/ 1 Jun 2000

War and pain

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga´s "war for peace" has gone awry in recent weeks. Stark reality dawned on Colombo only after the 23 April fall of the Elephant

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

Long view from new Delhi

However earnest her intention to end the 17-year-old ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Kumaratunga´s strategy of "war for peace" has backfired. Armed with

By Ashok K. Mehta

/ 1 Jun 2000

Tamil Nadu. Taamil Eelam and Greater Eelam

South Asian´s longest war in Sri Lanka escalated over the course of May to a point where the military balance in the island´s north has shifted dramatically in

By DBS Jeyaraj

/ 1 Jun 2000

Sri Lanka’s Petition

The Dynamics among the countries of South Asia has changed dramatically with Sri Lanka´s open and unabashed call for New Delhi´s help for military and, failing that, humanitarian

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

Voice

Indians do not own any of those either, or any of the rest of the 27 Indian food businesses on that block between First and Second Avenues, or most of

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

Tidbits of the region’s media

New York based Bengali author Amitav Ghosh was interviewed by some Benaras Hindu University Department of English students recently in — Varanasi. All of what he had to say to Baniprata

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

Only the peanut sellers were missing

(Welcoming Indian Airlines back to Kathmandu) Our IA flight from Calcutta to Kathmandu was due to leave early morning. The dawn was soft, a gentle humid air wafting across the

By Marcus Moench

/ 1 Jun 2000

Pathaney Khan: The compassionate minstrel

Pathaney Khan, who died on 9 March 2000, was one of the most popular singers of Pakistan, a flagbearer of a tradition going back a thousand years. During his lifetime,

By Sarwat Ali

/ 1 Jun 2000

Bengali film Uttara: Loneliness and fulfillment in Purulia

Far from the madding crowd, the technology and the intellectual ferment of urban life, in a lonely flag-cabin of a far-flung and idyllic Bengal village, live two men

By Sujoy Dhar

/ 1 Jun 2000

When time runs out…

A jargon-conquering guide for those who want to understand why South Asia went nuclear, and why it should not have. (South Asia on a Short Fuse: Nuclear Politics and

By Prabhu Ghate

/ 1 Jun 2000