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Tarnished Rays of 1947

Anniversaries are useful occasions as a way to remind us of the values that are enshrined in our history. The golden jubilee year of Indian and Pakistani independence, 1997, is

By Vijay Prashad

/ 1 Jul 1997

Roads without borders

If one does not count the Indo-Pakistan land border, which has to have its own solutions, the problem of closed terrestrial crossings may be resolving itself elsewhere in South

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1997

Free Trade-Wallah

India and Pakistan together boast a market of more than a billion consumers, but their trade relations have always been overshadowed by political tension. Overt and legitimate trade between the

By S.D. Muni

/ 1 May 1997

SAARC at Crossroads

The basic premise on which SAARC was founded is clearly showing signs of validation. While shaping the SAARC initiative during the early 1980s, it was assumed that by activating cooperative

By S.D. Muni

/ 1 May 1997

Test of the treaty

Expectations were high in Bangladesh when the newly-signed Farakka Treaty came into effect on 1 January 1997. Bangladeshis swung into action to take advantage of the additional flows as

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1997

Goodbye, Mr. Kesri

Indo-Pakistan relations have always had to contend with hiccups, but what the Congress party did by pulling the rug from under the United Front government of H.D. Deve

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1997

Hello, Mr. Gujral…

The turn of events that brought the Pakistan-born Inder Kumar Gujral to the seat of Prime Minister augurs well for India and South Asia. Without a political base of

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1997

Northeastern Sources

India´s Northeast Resurgent Ethnicity, Insurgency, Governance and Development by B.G. Verghese Konark Publishers, Delhi, 1996 475 pages. This book is a product of some sustained thinking, if not

By Subir Bhaumik

/ 1 Mar 1997

The fifty-year test

Two score and ten years ago, India´s founding fathers gave the country a parliamentary democracy with a fine system of checks and balances. Half a century into freedom and

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 1997

Monitoring the Monitors

For the last few years, every general election in a South Asian country has seen a group of individuals from the region fly off to monitor the polls. The South

By Sasanka Perera

/ 1 Mar 1997

Maldives, Sri Lanka and the “India Factor”

Colombo has been a traditional friend and New Delhi a friend in need of this strategic yet vulnerable republic, the smallest member of SAARC. There is no record of when

By Ravinatha Aryasinha

/ 1 Mar 1997

Out of India

Kathmandu Valley´s booming economy has attracted plains labour by the tens of thousand. Kathmandu residents do not need reminding that there is an open border between India and Nepal.

By Sangeeta Lama

/ 1 Jan 1997