Rating peacefulness
The first-ever Global Peace Index (GPI) was unveiled recently, revealing some unpleasant surprises for Southasia in general, and all-but-shining India in particular. The GPI, which
After years of turbulent relations, it is ironic that New Delhi is currently basking in a sense of reassurance over the possibility of good-neighbourly relations with Bangladesh, with the
The March 2007 issue of Critique, a review of Indian journalism, is dedicated to Sham Lal, the veteran editor and literary critic who died on 23 February. Writes the Nagpur-
Open Letter to President Mahinda Rajapakse to stop the expulsion of Tamils from Colombo Honorable Mahinda Rajapakse,
President of Sri Lanka On receiving reports of the expulsion of Tamils from
Self-criticism came more readily to our forebears.
Introspection and self-absorbed bigotry have traditionally walked hand-in-hand in Southasia. Megalomaniac rulers, the leech-like priestly classes and their
It has been a month of high drama in Bangladeshi politics – things have been melodramatic, in fact, even for election season. The storm that has been gathering over many months
On 22 September 2006, the Supreme Court of India, one of the most proactive courts in the world, directed the governments at the state and the union level to institutionalise
It has been a month of Indian media houses organising big jamborees. The Hindustan Times Summit saw Delhi's power elite, a galaxy of political leaders from across the
In this section of a larger panorama, Venantius J Pinto shows us a village that may be the epitome of decrepit. Ramshackle structures stand with walls cracked and doors off-
The political agreement reached by the Seven-Party Alliance on 9 November and a peace agreement signed between the two sides on 21 November, besides committing the Maoists to abandoning
President Mahinda Rajapakse's decision to open the A9 Highway to Jaffna as a one-time measure to send humanitarian supplies to Jaffna has come as a surprise, albeit
