The result of what is the world's largest study of its kind have shown that lead pollution is silently turning Indian city kids stupid. The study conducted on
As Nepal prepared for general elections in May, the results of a country-wide opinion poll created quite a stir when it was published in mid-April. The poll, seeking
Living as a Muslim In a Plural Society
by Faziur Rahman Farldi
Islamic Foundation, Madras, 1998
pp 105, INR 65
He has been burnt in effigy in Agra, people have threatened to "bash him up" others have offered him bribes to drop a case. Meet Mahesh Chander Mehta,
Man Mohan Adhikari, Nepal's "democratic communist" died on 26 April 1999, after collapsing during his campaign as the prime ministerial candidate for the Communist Party of
Women are the silent sufferers in the war over Kashmir.
Women have been the worst hit in the war in Kashmir. They have been killed in crossfire, shot in public
At the slightest hint of normalisation of relations with India, every Pakistani government is accused of selling out on Kashmir. Yet, as the 1998 elections showed, a political party that
Successive Pakistani governments have painted themselves into a corner over Kashmir by their overuse of rhetoric and emotion. This has locked Pakistan into an all-or-nothing position.
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Kashmir is the main excuse that India and Pakistan use to justify the high cost of their militarisation. It is not merely the peoples of Jammu and Kashmir who suffer
