Uprooted lives, transient existence, unending war. The civilians of Sri Lanka's north wait for the day when they can once again call a place home.
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Bengalee? Yes. Muslim? Yes, mostly. Bangladeshi? Yes. South Asian? Even that too. Confused? No question about that. In its twenty-fifth year, Bangladesh is still grasping after a personality.
Wake up India! It is time to break the fast with Kellogs cornflakes, toast made from Premium Harvest Gold Bread spread with Suncrest Margarine and Good Earth Marmalade, and wash
A respected member of the Sri Lankan Parliament, known for his professional and intellectual attributes and widely regarded as a moderate, recently told a journalist in private conversation that the
From the ramparts of the Red Fort in old Delhi, Prime Minister D.W. Deve Gowda announced the Centre's support for the creation of an Uttarakhand state, to
Two uncomfortable border problems have come up for discussion between India and Nepal: one in Nepal's southeastern tip in the Tarai plains and the other diagonally across, in
The image of the Pakistan army existed before the image of Pakistan, because the army existed before the country came into being. The charisma developed during Partition when the people
Kashmir evokes strong emotions in both India and Pakistan. For so long has the dispute been looked at from the respective nationalistic viewpoints, always mutually exclusive and hostile, that objectivity
The Big Dams-versus-Small Dams controversy would have been laid to rest long ago had there been greater public awareness of the unbelievably poor track record of large irrigation
I have not quite gotten over with what Roseanne Barr had to say about Bangladesh. While doing one of her stand-up comics in front of a studio audience, America´
Nepalis are justifiably proud of their multi-party democracy which they claim to have achieved after a long struggle against an unjust, apathetic and authoritarian regime. In the political lexicography
