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EPW and the Thinking Indian

A magazine that represents an emphatic triumph of content over form has just lost an editor.

/ 14 Feb 2004

The SAFTA mirage

SAARC trade ministers could not manage to meet even once between the November 2001 Doha Ministerial and the August 2003 Cancun Ministerial Conference of World Trade Organisation (WTO). There is

By Abid Quaiyum Suleri and Bhaskar Sharma

/ 13 Feb 2004

The rice and roti routine

The last roti is for her With which She has to craft The next day's sun. – Premranjan Animesh in Pichhali Roti Mao Zedong is believed to have said

By C K Lal

/ 1 Feb 2004

Nukes, sovereignty, and empire

There has been an incredible outpouring of public and private emotion in Pakistan over the "detention" of the country's most prominent nuclear scientists, including the best-

By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

/ 1 Feb 2004

Such charming simplicity!

SAARC came into existence in 1985, at a time when there were no visionaries left among the political class of the Subcontinent. That is itself eloquent testimony to the irrelevance

By The Editors

/ 21 Jan 2004

A Subcontinental free trade utopia

SAFTA has been hyped following the SAARC summit, but will it only help the trader and not the people? And what of services?

By Joe Thomas K

/ 1 Jan 2004

Is India really shining?

Not if you compare it to China, not if you study the indicators of public welfare, not if you look at centralisation...

By Mohan Guruswamy, Abhishek Kaul and Vishal Handa

/ 1 Dec 2003

Pakistan’s budget 2003-04: The economics of hypocrisy

Pakistan's government releases a budget addressing the concerns of its core constituency – the World Bank and the IMF.

By Shafqat Munir

/ 1 Jul 2003

The Nathu La switch

The recent visit by the Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to China has set the ink flowing in the South Asian media, particularly because it comes together with a

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 2003

The lie industry

The website of the United States Central Command recently reported that Pakistan suffered a USD 10 billion loss (almost one-third of total external debt) because of its support for

By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

/ 1 Jun 2003

Tea and other things

Judge CG Weeramantry, former vice president of the International Court of Justice and the president of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, told the Hague Appeal for Peace

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2003

King and parties

Nepal's political parties have over the years dug themselves into a pit of non-credibility. Their detachment from the national interest and petty behaviour hurts the country as

By Kanak Mani Dixit

/ 1 Jun 2003