Ever since shrill hostility gave way to an effort at dialogue between India and Pakistan, every little perturbation has been viewed as a potentially fatal blow to the tenuous engagement.
The ‘developing’ and ‘least developed’ countries have evolved a two-pronged approach: to keep fighting for their due rights and tariffs within the WTO; and create various safety nets in the form of bilateral and regional trading arrangements.
India may live or die in its villages but between the villages and the metropolitan global cities lies a vast hinterland of the mofussil world. Nirmal Verma’s life and work is a reminder that our languages need to expand beyond linguistics before we can reclaim what we have lost.
The Bhutanese royalty has the New Delhi media eating out of its hand. Verily. King Jigme (50) and his son, the soon-tohe King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk (25) should
Despite the ongoing efforts of exiles and advocates, one could be forgiven for having assumed that the world had written off Burma. Despite the Rangoon regime's horrendous record
Instead of accepting the nationalisation of everything through political cartographic boundaries, we can use geographical history to locate current social realities
Now is the time for Bangladesh to further develop and strengthen its political, economic and cultural relations with the rest of the Southasian states. In the favour of such an
Abysmal, tragic, rotten, archaic, misgoverned - these are only some of the terms used to describe Bihar. And that's by those who live there. But the people of Bihar are slowly turning the politics of the region on its head.
