India - Himal Southasian (Page 94)

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 the

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 Gowda

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 his

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

On His Holiness’ Secret Service

Himal South Asia had presented a report in its September edition on the accusations and counter-accusations between the Dalai Lama ´camp´ and the Shugden Supporters Community (SSC), a Buddhist group

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1997

Regionalism Washed Away

An important element which was included in the 1977 agreement, and a point that has come up again and again in the Indo-Bangla water talks, was the need for "

By Ajaya Dixit

/ 1 Jan 1997

Transit for Water

India´s proposal for allowing more dry seasonal flow of the Ganga into Bangladesh in exchange for gaining the right of transit to reach the Northeast from the Indian mainland

By Monirul Qader Mirza

/ 1 Jan 1997

Who’s Afraid of Farakka’s Accord?

Who ´won´ and who ´lost´ in December´s Indo-Bangla agreement on sharing the waters of the Ganga? The answer is hard to find in the complicated calculations that appear to have gone into the treaty. However, we will know soon enough, as the driest months up ahead reduce the river´s flow at Farakka´s

By Ajaya Dixit and Monirul Qader Mirza

/ 1 Jan 1997