It seems that the financial situation at the BBC is even direr than earlier presumed. In early November, Chhetria Patrakar was baffled and dismayed – still is – to find that the
The BBC has decided to pull the rug from under its South Asia web portal, even as the 17th SAARC Summit got underway in Addu Atoll in the Maldives. The
They gave me a mango at breakfast in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, in the boutique hotel where I was staying. The mango was beautifully presented in Thai style: two
Looking into a row of tenement buildings, a gallery of working-class life in Delhi, a rich and a full world of intrigue and festering desires is unfolding. It is
INDIA
53 years of special powers
In late October, Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 (AFSPA) would be removed
BANGLADESH
Death squad
In mid-August, a report by the rights watchdog Amnesty International strongly criticised Bangladesh's elite police force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), accusing it of
There is no question about it, Bengalis in India are justified in wanting to stop calling their state West Bengal. Paschimbanga was the new consensus name, trumping alternatives such as
