The Internet is shedding its exclusivist character.
The internet evangelist Jeffery Barlow says that the Internet is the ultimate democracy. Others agree that it will take on the autocrats of
Vasco da Gama's 500th anniversary touches a raw nerve in Goa.
Suddenly, the Portuguese are big news in their former colony of Goa, now better known as a
Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
Macmillan, London, 1997
These days climbers die live.
India: From Midnight to the Millennium
by Shashi Tharoor
Viking Penguin, New Delhi, 1997
A secular, liberal, urbane, globalised Indian fails to grasp India.
This is a shortened version of the more detailed report made to Film South Asia ´97 by the Festival Jury, which comprised of noted filmmaker Pankaj Butalia from Delhi; Colombo-
"If Bhutan tries to throw out the rebels, it gets involved in what essentially are India's problems. If it shies away from action, it risks the wrath
