The new Secretary General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) spoke to Himal editor Kanak Mani Dixit soon after assuming office.
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United by language, West Bengal and Bangladesh meet at the Calcutta Book Fair.
A book fair that can make people buy tickets in the black market to avoid the wait
Defenders of the Establishment: Ruler-Supportive Police Forces of South Asia
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Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 199_
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The yearly floods expose Assam's fragile health care system.
As the plane prepared to land at Dibrugarh on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra, Assam looked like an
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Sangeeta Lama and Khalid Ansari interviewed Salman Ahmed of the group Junoon about their music, their Sufism, the controversy surrounding their tour of
The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
by Peter Marsden
Oxford University Press, Karachi/Zed Books, London & New York, 1998
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The World Bank had sent in a speaker to argue its well-known case for building more large dams in South Asia, and there were representative from the governments of
Vinod Mishra (1947-98)
What Mao Tse-Tung was to the Chinese, Vinod Mishra, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) was for millions in Bihar. And
