There is no doubt that children are great fighters. They are easy to indoctrinate and will follow blindly where their heroes lead. When children fight in a war, it is
Since 13 February 1996, when the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) launched their ´People´s War´ in the districts of Rolpa and Rukum in the mid-western hills of Nepal,
Musical orchids
Strange to say, orchids at a farm near Guwahati, the capital of Assam, are indeed swaying to bhajans. And going by their brisk growth, they seem to be
When, on 17 November, a 'private members' day', the leader of the small opposition, Saeed Manhais, stood up to speak in the majestic colonial building of the
It took the worst floods of the century to bring Bangladesh back into the spotlight of the international media. The sight of so much water just couldn´t be ignored,
Beyond finding answers to who exercises power and how, what makes the political analysis of developing countries interesting is the attempt to understand how those in power increase their capacity
Entertainers, intellectuals and liberals in Pakistan are being squeezed. They were already a threatened species, thanks to the policies of successive governments which have resulted in the rise of the
Each time there is an election on the horizon, the Indian political parties play out a great game. In the last few years this game has been enacted along the
An international treaty which will liberalise rules on international investments the same way that GATT did on trade is drawing flak.
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is an international
Junoon's fame has deeper roots in the hearts of Pakistanis than any notification from the Ministry of Culture.
When the Pakistani band Junoon toured India in May earlier
The Subcontinent buys into the beauty pageant myth, even as the West abandons it.
When, on 26 November, the vari cms Misses representing their countries cavort on the stage at
By now, Pakistanis are used not only to governments coming and going, but also to their using religion to shore up diminishing popularity. Benazir Bhutto's father did it,
