I grew up in what, in those days, could be called an almost perfectly middle-class Bengali family, one that abided by a set of even more perfected middle-class
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Mr Sustainability, Mr Friendship
Honouring his efforts to promote sustainable development practices and climate-change awareness, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was recently awarded the Sustainable Development Leadership
Life was hard enough for journalists in Pakistan before the police began registering cases against them. According to reports, in less than a month the police in Sindh registered cases
Southasian generals nowadays seem to be present more in government secretariats than in barracks. And they are there not to listen to elected civilian bosses, but to displace them, or,
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Bus sans passengers
The Nepal state-owned Sajha Yatayat resumed its Kathmandu-Lhasa bus service from 1 January, though the passengers were less than excited. In fact there
Conspiracy theories about who killed Benazir Bhutto abound, which have only been further fuelled by Pervez Musharraf's feeble attempts to downplay the obvious security lapse that took place.
The events of the past year in Dhaka are increasingly beginning to fit into the formula of a tragedy scripted in Islamabad nearly a decade ago. It was one year
More than perhaps any other, the events of 1857 and 1947 had the most dramatic impact on Southasia. While the political issues related to these experiences are widely discussed and
In Pakistan, it has long been said that the choices for successful politicians are very limited, including little more than 'from takhat to takhta' – from throne to crypt.
Sri Lanka's descent into a sorry state of war has not been a source of great concern within the country. Indeed, many outsiders are more worried than Sri
