The populist land reform package announced by Nepal's prime minister is preoccupied with the politics of setting new reduced ceilings on agricultural land holdings. Economic considerations targeted towards
What does the coming "war" against terrorism mean for South Asia?
A geopolitical realignment is now occurring in South and Central Asia. This is clear even if the
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Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition I ' assumed office at the Centre in India, there has been a spate of attacks on Muslim madrasas (religious schools), mosques
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Beautiful but tragic places make for good poetry. This is Ondaatje country in Colombo's Welawatte neighbourhood, where a small river meets the sea, where Pablo Neruda stayed for
When the Indian prime minister and the Pakistani generalissimo met to talk in Agra, the leaders, spin-managers and commentators on both sides forgot one critical point: that both countries
In his fight against the British Empire, Gandhi realised early on that the entity called India was not a nation in reality but merely a geographical expression of historic significance.
