Little Lanka's investments in sports paid off at the Bangkok Asian Games. Now, its athletes have their sights on the Sydney Olympics next year.
The 13th Asian Games
It does not matter whether they are Muslim or Hindu, conservative forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India seem to have found a common enemy: Women.
One of the first things
Interview with Shabana Azmi
Tim Sebastian talked to Shabana Azmi in London for the BBC's Hardtalk Interview just after the film, Fire, was released in India. Excerpts:
* Congratulations
Intolerance is the result of self-indulgence, and when religions turn their hack on their founding ideals.
A standard thesaurus list of the syn onyms for "intolerance" would
The past is not always something to be proud about. Deep down, we are all mongrels. There is always an element of shame hidden in history, and such is the
Fringe extremists on both sides of the India-Pakistan border are feeding off each other to kill, maim and brutalise their people in the name of religion.
It must be
Extremist Hindutva worming its way into the minds of the Indian masses is making intolerance look like a good habit.
The leopard does not change its spots. It was a
Bombay and Karachi. once acclaimed as the two most cosmopolitan and dynamic commercial centres of South Asia, have been reduced to clusters of warring, sectarian ghettoes. Violent political goons, extortionists
