Himal Southasian (Page 412)

Round-up of regional news

Protecting journalists by committee Oppressive governments and terrorist organisations have a propensity to confuse the truth with bad news and to further confuse the news with the messenger. They labour

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Constitutional iceberg

Not all, but some of the problems of the nascent Nepali democracy seem directly linked to the Constitution which was drafted over the course of 1990 under the aegis of

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Among the Naipaul

It was Trinidad-born VS. Naipaul who had famously described the India he visited as "an area of darkness". And, when his younger brother, novelist Shiva Naipaul, travelled

By Amitava Kumar

/ 1 May 1998

Great speech, Your Excellency

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country," said Sir Henry Wotton back in 1604, and some things never seem to

By Quddus Mia

/ 1 May 1998

Cardboard Swadeshi

How "swadeshi" is the BJP? A checklist suggests maybe not very much.

By Vandana Shiva and Claude Alvares

/ 1 May 1998

World Bank Book(Shhh!)

Normally, when two Washington bulwarks spend more than USD 2 million for an authorised history, publication is marked by a bang, not a whimper. That´s why people in the

By Max Holland

/ 1 May 1998

Silicon tectonics

Bangalore's loss is Hyderabad's gain. Bangalore developed rapidly through the early 1990s as the software and computer capital of India. It is now equally quickly losing

By J. Srinivasan

/ 1 May 1998

Brief

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based organisation founded in 1981 and backed by heavyweights of American journalism, has been keeping public tabs on the effects of this

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

At Crossroads

The periphery is now in demand, and the Baltis have got ideas.cr Billed a primitive place, unchanged, isolated, remote, with the greatest concen tration of high mountain peaks in

By Nigel J.R. Allan

/ 1 May 1998

Updates from the last months issue

A real dam in Pakistan Dams are no stuff of fantasia. Between the charged debates for and against high dams (Himal, March 1998), they continue to be built and are

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Balawarish: High country

Not accepted within the fold of Pakistan, activists formulate a nationalist political ideology relying on the `mountain-ness' of the Northern Areas. Come to Balawaristan! Experience the mystic serenity

By Martin Sokefeld

/ 1 May 1998

Age of aquarius

When Saturn moved to the house of Aries after 30 years at 1.27 pm on 17 April 1998, some politicians from both the ruling and opposition parties in Sri

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998