India - Himal Southasian (Page 97)

RIVERS RUN THROUGH IT

Two uncomfortable border problems have come up for discussion between India and Nepal: one in Nepal's southeastern tip in the Tarai plains and the other diagonally across, in

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1996

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Bollywood, as even its most ardent admirers will admit, definitely has a touch of the bizarre. Exaggerated portrayals of personalities are the norm rather than the exception. But what if

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1996

Dead on Arrival

Testing Times: The Global Stake in a Nuclear Test Ban by Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik Dag Hammarskjold Foundation Uppsala, Sweden, 1996

By T.T.Paulose

/ 1 Jul 1996

“LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR”

Within India, the image of the United Front government in New Delhi might have begun to tarnish after an all-too-brief honeymoon with the media. But, were a poll

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1996

End of History

The political abuse of history in India and Pakistan is fostering entire generations that are conditioned to regard each other as the enemy. India´s Evil Designs Against Pakistan."

By Navnita Chadha Behera

/ 1 Jun 1996

A MANDATE FOR FEDERALISM?

The beginning of June in India saw the beginning of a unique experiment: for the first time in its history, a broad-based 13-party coalition of disparate elements took

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 1996

HINDU AND MUSLIM – II

"Hindu and Muslim" is an occasional column which reflects on the Hindu-Muslim schism, its origins and ramifications. The writer of this instalment is a Karachi-based educationist

By Abbas Husain

/ 1 Jun 1996

HATE THY NEIGHBOUR

Some of the more promising election-time pitches in the SAARC countries are linked to the matter of 'bad neighbour' rather than domestic issues. In India, the Bharatiya

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 1996

Through the Magic Window Television and Change in India

by Sevanti Ninan Penguin Books India, New Delhi Since the satellites began bearing down on the Subcontinent, television has displaced many household activities, 'notably sleeping', says the author

By Kanak Mani Dixit

/ 1 Jun 1996

Sex worker myths

How can it be proper that Bombay (its men and economy) takes maximum advantage of poor women driven to prostitution and then dump them as soon as they are seen

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1996

President’s rule

Democracy has been shortchanged with a system of governance which welcomes loud and corrupt and keeps the intelligent and the honest at bay Never in the history of independent India

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1996

What They Said at CII

The timing of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) session on the eve of an election may have ushered a new era as far is acknowledging the role of business

By Sujeev Shakya

/ 1 May 1996