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India’s self-goal in Gujarat

The evil now consuming Gujarat emerged from the BJP's communal 'laboratory experiments' in the state. The massacres of Muslims thus do not represent a failure but

By Ranjit Dev Raj

/ 1 May 2002

The social engineering of Gujarat

The ongoing violence and its broadening social and geographical base in the state is a consequence of the political recasting of social identities. The winter moon had already risen over

By Hemant Babu

/ 1 May 2002

As the communal carnage in Gujarat enters its third month, the Vajpayee government has fashioned a three-pronged strategy: brazen out the opprobrium, attack domestic and international critics of Narendra

By Praful Bidwai

/ 1 May 2002

Hoodbhoy and the Bomb

Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear Shadow Eqbal Ahmed Foundation, 2001 Produced by Pervez Hoodbhoy Text by Zia Mian

By Teresa Joseph

/ 1 Apr 2002

The ties that bind

The Boundary between Nepal and India is nothing more than a brick and lime masonry structure built during the days of the Empire. Its 'Das Gaja' of no-

By Gauri N Rimal

/ 1 Apr 2002

Reminiscences of the Silent Chanakya

The Insider Penguin Publishers 2000, 833 Pages, Rs.495, ISBN- 0140271171 PV.Narasimha Rao

By Sreeram Chaulia

/ 1 Mar 2002

“NO PARTY DOMINANT”: India’s New Political System

As the recent round of elections to the legislative assemblies of four states in India reconfirm the decline of the dominant-party system, it is time to reflect on its

By Robin Jeffrey

/ 1 Mar 2002

In the Wake of the Tests

Out of the Nuclear Shadow Edited by Smitu Kothan and Zia Mian Palgrave Press, 2002 ISBN 1 84277 058 6

By Kanti Bajpai

/ 1 Feb 2002

Cultural flows across a blurred boundary

South Asia's blurred cultural boundaries are being given sharp edges with frontiers full of patrolling soldiers, the raising of border security forces, and even barbed barricades and floodlights.

By C K Lal

/ 1 Feb 2002

Nepal, India and Area Studies

There is a lot of talk on the need to understand each other in South Asia, but strangely nothing is being done to promote area studies Take one instance: the

By Pratyoush Onta

/ 1 Jan 2002

Deep red in the heartland

Quiz: What is CCOMPOSA? Led by Nepal's Maobaadi, violent communism is picking up steam in South Asia even as it disappears from the rest of the world, and

By Sudheer Sharma

/ 1 Jan 2002

The South Asian Bomb

As the US mobilised its armed forces in the after math of the terrorist attacks of 11 September, the world's attention focused on Pakistan, so crucial to military

By M. V. Ramana and Zia Mian

/ 1 Dec 2001