"If we'd had a division of Gurkhas in Albania when the war began, it wouldn't have taken us almost three months to get to Pristina.
New Delhi and Islamabad seem to covet only territory. They do not seem to care much about their own civilians who have become refugees of this undeclared war. Himal'
Beyond failure of military intelligence, Kargil represents New Delhi's intellectual bankruptcy. A Ladakhi scholar in New Delhi provides a different perspective.
The Pakistani intrusion in Kargil has a
For Pakistan, Kargil may be a calculated miscalculation. India has to mask its initial intelligence failure by regaining the peaks regardless of heavy casualties. Both sides need a face-saving
The Kargil mess may well lead to the use of Great Power influence in South Asia, something which New Delhi has resisted for decades
For a military engagement which New
Rather than the clinical psychologist, that he is by training, Akhter Ahsan appears more like a sufi saint, equally at ease with using Islamic and Hindu spiritual traditions to heal
It used to be said that Sri Lanka's two major religions were Buddhism and Cricket. The successes registered by Sri Lanka in international cricket, particularly the winning of
An unprecedented crisis of drinking water contaminated by natural arsenic affects nearly 100 million people in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Experts dealing with the toxicity of arsenic now have a
