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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

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

Ready to act

The Nepali Parliament is winding down its monsoon session amidst the most rowdy inter-party squabble the Lower House has ever seen, reminding one of the bedlam that overtook the

By Rajendra Dahal

/ 1 Oct 1998

Round-up of regional news

Meena is the message No Superhuman feats for her, no inter-galactic forays, and certainly no dishum-dishum crime-busting scenes. Ten-year-old Meena, the video cartoon character, is

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998

The Taliban and the Hazaras

Fears mount in Hazarajat as the Taliban advance on the region.

By Michael Semple

/ 1 Oct 1998