Inside Rao
What do you do when you are out of power, by now four times removed from the prime ministership of India and twice removed from the presidency of
Hindutva advocates writing in the Indian media are always striking an oddly two-faced pose. On the one hand, they are eager to impress upon their readers that Hindutva is
If india was looking towards the general elections to clear some of the uncertainties that cloud the political horizon, it could not have been more baffled. The single largest party
Unlike other countries, where positioning of your business tends to be much smoother, doing business in India requires "patience, patience and patience", said Roger Mabey, Executive Director of
Afdhel Aziz proposes a television programme which may help relieve the ethnic tension in Sri Lanka.
The apathy among many Sri Lankans towards the country´s ethnic conflict is obvious.
There is never a dull moment in the Pakistan polity, with what the erudite call "fissiparous tendencies" erupting all over all the time. This was as true during
If, as Edward Said says in Representations of the Intellectual, "…for most exiles the difficulty consists not simply in being forced to live away from home, but rather, given
Guns and roses
Peace seemed to be at hand at the open-air stadium in Kagrachchary district in early February when, in the morning sunshine, regulars from the Shanti Bahini
Looking only at India-Nepal scholarship as example, a Kathmandu historian finds little reason to be optimistic about the production of quality scholarship among SAARC countries about each other.
Official
Even Joseph Heller, creator of the absurd illogic of Catch-22, would have been impressed by the convoluted reasoning. A retired Supreme Court justice, offering his opinion on the
Nothing better expresses the state of Nepali politics than the question on everyone´s minds these days: What next? A dysfunctional right-centre coalition government has just survived a no-
