When we were younger, T-shirts hung from our bodies like flags at half-mast, unlikely symbols of procrastinating rebellions. A rude message, a shocking colour, an unwashed tone, an
Violent extremism in Pakistan, particularly in the NWFP, has in recent months acquired a dramatic ferocity. An unprecedented number of suicide bombings have taken place across Pakistan, the latest of
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A team of mountain climbers returned hurriedly to Kathmandu via helicopter in late November from near the Mount Everest base camp on the Nepali side. The
All over Southasia, people suffer under autocracies and anarchies. Then they rise, in swellings called people's movements. Of course, these movements are not in themselves enough, as has
There was jubilation in the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party on 14 December, after the Parliament passed the 2008 budget proposals on its third reading, with a majority of 47
Manmohan Singh has the image of being a moderate man, not prone to exaggeration or extreme reaction. Therefore, if such a person, perhaps in desperation, refers to how there is
The middle class, dhoti-panjabi-clad bhadralok has appropriated a large part of the written history of colonial Bengal. This urban, middle-class, liberally educated individual had also become the
Make hay while the sun shines, they say, and in the evening sleep. Or make the most of food and wine, they continue, and into the nighttime weep. In this
Narendra Modi's triumphant return to power in Gujarat, by a huge margin, is as much a victory of Moditva – the brand of rightwing exclusionary politics espoused by Modi
Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen is arguably India's pre-eminent intellectual, and has long been in high demand throughout the world as a graduation speaker, conference participant
While at school at the Central School for Tibetans in Mussoorie, my classmates and I used to sing a song that went, "Chocho mangmi la madro, haapen bholo yoki
Nine months after a military-driven interim government assumed power in Bangladesh, the country is facing its greatest peril of the past decade and a half. Despite the promise of
