Recent events in Sri Lanka suggest that government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leaders are discovering the complexity of their evolving roles and slowing adjusting to them. President
"Can you tell me why, in 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our land, conquered our minds? From
The two-nation theory is used as a form of social control by Pakistan's elite.
The single most important event in Pakistani his tory is the secession of
If we had a clearer picture of how India changed after independence, we might have a better sense of where it is going today. But how to encompass half a century's history of hundreds of millions of people? Like a geologist analysing cross-sections of strata to understand how rock was formed and wha
The war against terrorism used to include a battle against poverty. The "war on terror" seems to have dumped that creditable cause.
When leaders of the institutions that
He is playing with the constitution like Ayub, he held a referendum like Zia, and he is as powerhungry as Nawaz Sharif and Benazir — ladies and gentlemen, Gen Pervez Musharraf
The number of lives saved in Sri Lanka in the past five months of ceasefire probably amounts to about 1500, given an average death toll of 10 per day of
Bangladeshi women who face harassment from males lack any access to avenues of social or legal redress. The suicide of Simi Banu tragically highlights the need for the law to protect not only female 'modesty', but the very right to equality.
The US 'war on terrorism' has given cover to Israeli abuses against the Palestinians and cemented the rule of democrat-authoritarians like Pervez Musharraf. Southasians must beware of neo-imperialism and decide their own futures.
Once only passive witnesses to public violence, Hindu Gujarati women have taken a prominent role in the ongoing attacks on Muslims in the state. While the roots of this phenomenon
