globalisation
Visions of solidarity
A critical examination of literature that points to the possibilities of social and political change.
Ahilan Kadirgamar | Mar 15, 2015
Where next after multimedia?
A new collection of essays seeks to make sense of our new multimedia world, where we are both producers and consumers, newly free and newly constrained
Dipankar Sinha | Jul 15, 2013
Between loaf and halal
Sri Lanka tries to shake off entrenched practices that nationalists see as a threat to local food culture
Tharuka Dissanaike | Apr 15, 2013
Gujarat after two years of ‘normalcy’
A 2004 critique of the Gujarat carnage remains disturbingly relevant to the reality of the state today
Satish Deshpande | Jan 15, 2013
The ‘Forward Policy’ and Southasia
Beijing hopes to penetrate the Southasian market, while at the same time use the opening to keep quiet its restive outlying provinces.
Mahendra P. Lama | Sep 01, 2006
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