It is not even a state secret; Nepal has the worst television in all South Asia. Nepal Television (NTV), the state-owned broadcasting monopoly doles out such stale fare that,
by Sevanti Ninan
Penguin Books India, New Delhi
Since the satellites began bearing down on the Subcontinent, television has displaced many household activities, 'notably sleeping', says the author
So far so good. Where will the satellite programmers go from here?
THESE DAYS, it is fashionable in Pakistan, as it is elsewhere, to malign satellite television. Given the daily
Maliha is 19 years old, a child of war. She has known little but sorrow, pain and fear. Three years ago, a rocket landed on her family´s house in
How is it that one of the largest-ever embezzlement scams in India, involving unimaginable crones of rupees, occurs in its poorest state?
In India, the judiciary struck once in
AIDS thrives on people's poverty and ignorance, and as the pandemic prepares to spread, it threatens to sap the health of nations as well.
Bombay has the largest
