Himal Southasian (Page 404)

CA-15 and puppets

Entertainers, intellectuals and liberals in Pakistan are being squeezed. They were already a threatened species, thanks to the policies of successive governments which have resulted in the rise of the

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1998

Sen bashing

…Sen deservers to get bashed a bit, because he did, after all, win this year´s Nobel. Even at his best, he can be at his worst. Consider one of

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1998

Owning Amartya-da

The Nobel Prize is a pampered institution. Nobel laureates more so. So when Amartya Sen won this year´s "Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences", the tom-

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1998

Textbook strategy

Each time there is an election on the horizon, the Indian political parties play out a great game. In the last few years this game has been enacted along the

By Shantanu Nagpal

/ 1 Nov 1998

Most favoured nations

An international treaty which will liberalise rules on international investments the same way that GATT did on trade is drawing flak. The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is an international

By Kavaljit Singh

/ 1 Nov 1998

Meanwhile, Jagdish

Providing a reaction to Amartya Sen's having won the Nobel Prize, Mohammed Muzammil, Reader in Economics at Lucknow University, writes: If there is a question which Indian economist

By Mohammed Muzammil

/ 1 Nov 1998

Other worlds beyond the stars

Junoon's fame has deeper roots in the hearts of Pakistanis than any notification from the Ministry of Culture. When the Pakistani band Junoon toured India in May earlier

By Kazim Saeed

/ 1 Nov 1998

Miss (Third) World)

The Subcontinent buys into the beauty pageant myth, even as the West abandons it. When, on 26 November, the vari cms Misses representing their countries cavort on the stage at

By Andrew Russell

/ 1 Nov 1998

Throes of a vertigo

Sylvan Levi (1863-1935), the French indologist visited Kathmandu Valley – then capital of a truly forbidden kingdom at turn of century, seeking long-lost Buddhist texts that may have been

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1998

IN GOD’S NAME

By now, Pakistanis are used not only to governments coming and going, but also to their using religion to shore up diminishing popularity. Benazir Bhutto's father did it,

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998

KILLING FIELDS OF KILINOCHCHI

Twenty seven lorries flying Red Cross flags wended their way on 30 September through the thick Tamil Tiger-held Vanni jungles of northern Sri Lanka into government military territory. The

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998

Fatwa Fury

Taslimanasreen returned to Bangladesh about the same time the more celebrated Salman Rushdie received a semi-reprieve from the fatwa issued against him by the long-gone Ayatollah Khomeini. These

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998