Both India and Pakistan seem to be upset over the prospect of 'autonomy' in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, but what they do not like may be
The release of the leaders of the All Party Hurriyat Conference is welcome. But why in the first place were they put under detention, just after the parliamentary election in
Centralised control keeps federalism at bay in South Asia, but Art. 370 provides a formula for good governance all over because it comes closest to providing representation to group identities.
Half a century ago, India was partitioned. With the Muslim League violently pressing its demand, the Congress saw the inevitability, and agreed. One proposed, the other accepted. Partition, then, became
Kashmir has moved a long way from enjoying the pride of place in newly independent India to being regarded by many Indians as a bad penny, a state which wants
The people were to rule, not a foreign or indigenous monarch. This is reflected in the Constitution which begins by taking its authority from, "We the people of India&
"It is all in the Access"
Subhash Goyal is the president of the Indian Association of Tour Operators, besides being the chairman of STIC (Student Travel Information Centre)
Mizoram's turnaround can show the rest of India's Northeast what a cease-fire can do. But with peace here, progress must not take too long.
Ironies
Maldives segregates the locals from the tourists, and sells sun, sand and coral.
In the late 1961s, a foreign advisor on foreign investment had, struck tourism off the list of
At the fifth Joint Convention of the Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy, everyone's eye was on a young Karachi-based journalist, Nasir, his wife
