It's a village surrounded by villas. Nithari. A "well-concealed eyesore", according to one newspaper account. It is inhabited by migrant labourers, some employed as domestic
The West Bengal Chief Minister and the ruling Left Front (LF) government's former poet-commissar, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, translator of Mayakovsky, is busy with another kind of poetry these
The undeclared Eelam War IV in Sri Lanka shows no signs of abating. The Ceasefire Agreement, whatever is left of it, is enervated and made more irrelevant daily. Violence in
Indians need no longer worry that their country has 'made it', when The Times of London advises Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime-Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown
In an old myth of the Subcontinent, a giant bird or demon swallows the moon, plunging the earth into darkness. In this painting by Sabir Nazar, however, most of the
The conflict between Shias and Sunnis, though ancient in its origins, has come to the fore with dramatic intensity on the international stage with the execution of ousted Iraqi dictator
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Never in the past two decades has the situation been as favourable as now for progress on one of the most intractable Southasian conflicts of our times. We
Burma is the starkest example of a closed society in Southasia. An oppressive regime continues to hold sway over the country. Respect for human rights is, for all purposes, an
Thousands of years ago, in the historic silk-route city of Baku on the banks of the Caspian Sea, ancients worshipped a phenomenon they could hardly comprehend: pillars of fire
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Assam is bleeding. In the first week of January, armed with Kalashnikovs and other weaponry, rebels of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) carried out a series
Two cabinet ministers flanked Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse when he met visiting Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee in mid-January. One was Mukherjee's counterpart Mangala Samaraweera. The
