Trying to ride the state's coattails to power, Pakistan's ageing Maoists concede that they misjudged the nature of their country and population.
Down at the Anarkali
The philosophy of "Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse Tung-Thought", which caught the public's imagination in Naxalbari 30 years ago has now moved south to the forests of Andhra Pradesh.
…the battle must break out again and again in ever-growing dimensions, and there can be no doubt as to who will be the victor in the end – the appropriating
When the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) declared a "People´s War" in February 1996 and attacked police posts in some areas in the Nepali hills, it came
In the more impoverished parts of South Asia – from the western hills of Nepal to the badlands of Bihar, in the forests of Andhra Pradesh or the marginalised hinterlands of
There are some refugee issue that have more or less solved themselves through sheer passage of time. indu, Muslim and Sikh refugees created by Partition have had to come to
The Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced on 26 July that it was changing its name to Mutahida Qaumi Mahaz (United National Movement). The proposal is not new. It was first
A strange element in Sri Lanka´s long-drawn civil war, now in its fourteenth year, is that despite the blood that has been shed and the limbs that have
Now that the breathless television extravaganza of the 50th anniversary of Independence of India and Pakistan is over, we can perhaps take a more sober look at the past half-
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
