Afghanistan's opium economy has been called the most serious problem facing the country today. President Hamid Karzai has long warned that either "we destroy the problem or
From the heavens
Sometimes I was the mountain,
And carried you on my chest.
A bridge sometimes, also riverbanks,
And now I am an ocean,
But you continue to flow,
Located strategically in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka was a hub in the maritime silk and spice routes for millennia. It drew traders from the East and West for both
The results of the Lok Sabha elections proved far itchier for India's communists than did the scorching May heat in smouldering West Bengal. Not since 1977 had the
Bangladesh/Nepal
Monopolistic diplomacy
Bangladesh may be Nepal's second-largest trading partner in Southasia (after India), but who would believe that the total amount of their trade only
The longest day of the year is by definition the hottest day of the year, and so this thing happens nearly every summer at solstice on these plains, our home,
On 15 June, General Moeen U Ahmed, the allegorical Man on Horseback of Bangladesh who was instrumental in installing a military-backed government through a coup in early 2007, rode
Neither the title – Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development Project – nor its acronym, ALTID, rolls off the tongue. The sombre and somewhat vague designation seems inappropriate for such an ambitious undertaking
Mahinda Rajapakse has had a good few months. First, he resoundingly defeated the LTTE, ending a war that had raged for almost three decades. Then, just as calls for an
Chhetria Patrakar has recently been seeing some blue in the southern reaches of the Subcontinent – not because of temperature-induced encroaching sea levels, but rather in terms of a temperament-
INDIA TODAY publishes several editions in the ´vernacular´, and some are said to be better than others. Recently got to compare an Hindi issue with the original English, and found
