A baby cried, an old man coughed with tuberculosis-infected lungs, and two young men and a girl crooned an old Mara song. A Burmese cheroot was lit, and passed
We hear nice things about Southasian camaraderie emanating from South Block, and we believe them. As the SAARC summit rolls up in early August, we can expect to hear from
Early May witnessed extraordinary scenes in India's Rajya Sabha, where women parliamentarians formed a protective cordon around Law Minister H R Bhardwaj as he tabled the 81st Constitutional
New Delhi policymakers do not need to go far to see that there is something wrong with their development model. While one part of the capital city witnesses a booming
Sri Lankans have become used to the idea of elections every year, so the polls for the Eastern Provincial Council should have been just another routine exercise. Yet this was
The new government in Pakistan had raised hopes of more press freedom, but at the moment this is remaining a pipedream. The privately owned television station Geo, one of the
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Rice connectivity
Over the past couple of months, nearly every country in the region has undergone its own, unique crisis under the rubric of the ongoing food crisis. First
Kabul is a city of dramatic contrasts. In the streets, shiny black-windowed limousines drive alongside scruffy pushcarts with wobbly wheels. On the sidewalks, one-legged beggars hold out hands
Who would have thought the roof of the world could be such a turbulent place? From the foothills of the Himalaya, to the mountain passes of Bhutan, and up on
The 1950 Treaty of Peace and Friendship between India and Nepal has come fully into the limelight following the recent Constituent Assembly elections in the latter. Mention of the treaty
The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), two years after abandoning guerrilla warfare to participate in aboveground politics, now finds itself set to lead the government. On 10 April, the former
In Dhaka, there is a sense of a lull before the storm. At the beginning of last year – nearly 16 months ago – a quasi-military interim government swept into power
