In post-conflict Sri Lanka, governance is being militarised.
After the defeat of the LTTE, it was hoped that Southasia's most desirable capital city, whose many beautiful trees
A story of false concerns and true fears, as far as the statues of Mayawati are concerned.
Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's most popular
While clearly a watershed decision for the queer community, the Indian court's recent reading-down of Section 377 will likely benefit other minorities as well.
After agitating for
Sri Lanka/The Maldives
One island to another
President Mohamed Nasheed recently paid a visit to his country's closest island neighbour, Sri Lanka. In President Mahinda Rajapaske'
Polling for Afghanistan's presidential and provincial council elections is slated for 20 August, against a backdrop of increasing and unprecedented violence that is putting more Afghans at risk
Throughout the years of the island's ethnic conflict, successive governments of Sri Lanka maintained that the war was against the LTTE and not the Tamil people. As such,
As of 21 July, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported a total of 700 deaths from 'swine flu', since the new virus was first identified in late April
Those who could tear themselves away from reading about Michael Jackson's death and his various artificial body parts got to talk about happenings on other constructed landscapes. The
The Carvaka school of philosophy offered some of the first rationalist opposition to the otherworldly tendencies of Hinduism and Buddhism.
Through the ages, various societies have sparkled with bursts of
Like in India, the left in Bangladesh is currently anaemic; unlike its Indian counterpart, however, the Bangladeshi left has been in this state for decades. Contesting under the Awami League
