As Indian writing in English gains global recognition, assumptions about a singular “Indian” sensibility overlook class, gender and socio-political nuance in contemporary literary works
Most Indians believe that any debate on the Kargil war is unpatriotic or simply anti-national. Most Pakistanis believe that their prime minister is fighting a brave war, not only
Atal Behari Vajpayee's South Asian 'road transport' diplomacy, begun with his much-hailed trip to Lahore, has been deflated, as it were, by the bangs of
The Indian economy is on a roll, ask the Bombay taxi driver.
Cool Cabs are the electric-blue, air-conditioned taxis that were introduced in Bombay about five years ago.
The first surprise was the turnout. About 65 percent of Nepal's 13.5 million voters cast ballots in the country's general elections held this May. Conventional
Gelling festive about nukes is one way of gelling nationalism going.
On 28 May 1998, the government of Pakistan followed that of India's and tested nuclear devices. While
An intellectual unintimidated by power or authority
Eqbal Ahmad, perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of Asia and Africa, has died, aged 66, in Islamabad following an
The Nawaz Sharif government has armed itself with yet another imaginative law, enabling it to declare virtually any Pakistani a terrorist. Under the new Anti-Terrorist (Amendment) Ordinance promulgated on
One year after India and Pakistan defiantly tested their nuclear bombs, their triangular dialogue with the United States playing middleman appears to be leading to nuclear restraint. And now after
Argentina and Brazil agreed to mutual nuclear renunciation, and turned their rivalry into cooperation. Could India and Pakistan do the same?
It is a year since India and Pakistan hook
