What started out as class war on behalf of the proletariat has degenerated into gang war in support of landlords and petty politicians.
Maoism is no longer flagging its little
Producing Women
After three decades of television in India, women have finally begun to enter the production arena in a big way. They are no longer just pretty faces on
Arundhati Roy’s 'The God of Small Things' exposes the limits of Western criticism that flattens Southasian literature into exoticism, moral lessons or comparisons to Rushdie – exposing, too, the gaps in understanding between Southasians themselves
The four past secretaries general of SAARC include Abul Ahsan from Bangladesh, followed by Kant Kishore Bhargava from India, Ibrahim Hussain Zaki from the Maldives and Yadav Kant Silwal from
The Taliban are attempting to impose a new moral order in Afghanistan and they are doing it at gunpoint. The Afghan experience has lessons for the rest of South Asia,
Ruling the Unruly
As you enter Afghanistan by road from Pakistan at Torkham, leaving the border checkpost, there is a small hand-painted notice in Pushtoo, nailed to a tree
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
by P. Sainath
Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 1996
ISBN 0 14 25984 8
In the early 1980s, villagers in Naupada district in India´s
Buddha Brouhaha
It was a classic case of much ado about nothing.
An exhibition of Buddha´s relics preserved in India was jointly organised by New Delhi´s National Museum
Talks between India and Pakistan are periodically resumed and abandoned, with both sides fixated in their positions and little hope for reconciliation. Rather than throw one´s hands up in
Anniversaries are useful occasions as a way to remind us of the values that are enshrined in our history. The golden jubilee year of Indian and Pakistani independence, 1997, is
