In this painting by Sabir Nazar, a bird sits in a cage. Outside, people go about their activities, good and bad; their lives, pleasant and painful. They pray, they nap;
The tussle between the judicial, executive and legislative branches is an old one. Competing loyalties, political interference and plain corruption have challenged the independence of the judiciary in most countries
Regional energy integration has long been a pie in the Southasian sky. And like other grand visions that fail to materialise, the blame for this lack of success has fallen
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who assumes the SAARC chair in April, has spoken of the importance of assessing Southasian regional cooperation "in the larger Asian context". The implications
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Pipeline ahoy!
Sanctions are not supposed to work this way. After seemingly endless stops and starts, India, Pakistan and Iran decided during the second week of March to begin
Image: Wan Press
The trial of U Thein Zan, a 65-year-old retired Burmese sailor who was arrested for satirising government newspapers in early March, was deferred to the
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South Indians for Nepal, tourists for Southasia
The Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), eager to benefit from the thus-far little-tapped market of South India, recently mobilised a promotional
There is good news from Kashmir. The diligent reader of the Indian national press will be informed that wildlife poaching is down to almost nil. This is thanks to arms
Gujarat, the much-maligned land of the Mahatma, refuses to move ahead on the path of tolerance or the road of repentance, at least officially. The unofficial ban on the
For outside observers, the picture currently emerging from Nepal seems rather depressing: the continuing ill-health of 85-year-old Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala; the reluctance of the Nepali
The past month has seen a charade played by the political parties in Kathmandu, including the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), newly inducted into the government and interim parliament. Everyone
