Nostalgia, either for old-fashioned movie romance or for Michael Ondaatje's writing, has obscured the real tragedy of The English Patient: that it took an arresting, original story
The cinema of the Indian Northeast has been said to be a cinema of underdevelopment. Since the economy of this region is not going anywhere, it is natural to expect
While all of India is talking of corruption and chargesheets at the highest echelons of national and state governments, an initiative gathers steam in a corner of Rajasthan to demand
SAARC has had the thankless task of bringing together countries that are quite disparate in size, economic scale and geopolitical clout, and to give them a sense unity and direction.
Wanted: microlenders who empower the poor rather than maintain them on the treadmill of debt.
They had gathered on 2 April to announce to the press the formation of a new grouping for regional cooperation. But their dilemma was that they did not want to
Ever since he hit the headlines, Hussain Mohammad Ershad has been setting one precedent after another. Never before in the short history of Bangladesh had a leader taken over without
The success or failure of SAARC in advancing regional cooperation is dependent upon the inescapable fact that it is an inter-governmental organization. Even within the areas of cooperation that
South Asian governments should lift trade barriers, get out of the way, and let markets grow smoothly.
Despite the dangers of generalisation, it is fair to assert that most countries
