Gelling festive about nukes is one way of gelling nationalism going.
On 28 May 1998, the government of Pakistan followed that of India's and tested nuclear devices. While
An intellectual unintimidated by power or authority
Eqbal Ahmad, perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of Asia and Africa, has died, aged 66, in Islamabad following an
States, Citizens and Outsiders: The Uprooted Peoples of South Asia
edited by Tapan Bose and Rita Manchanda
South Asia Forum for Human Rights.
Kathmandu, 1997
The pursuit of nuclear weapons in the Subcontinent is the moral equivalent of civil war: the targets the rulers have in mind are, in the end, their own people.
The
"Kalapani"- waters – the term has an ominous ring to it in much of South Asia due to its association with the hellish colonial-era penitentiary in the Andamans.
Ashis Nandy, psychologist, author and social commentator, who is with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, spoke to Rita Manchanda.
• Is there a validity in narrowing
The vernacular idiom expresses emotion far better than it does reason.
Indian and Pakistani media were state-dominated to begin with. Since most of the population is not yet literate,
The leaders of India and Pakistan have now appropriated to themselves, as others had done before, the power that was God’s alone – to kill mountains, make the earth quake, bring the sea to boil, and destroy humanity.
Antonin Artaud could not have done better. The timing was so immaculate and surreal.
Celebrating the 50th year of our independence, Atal Behari Vajpayee erased in one stroke the legacy
One cannot really be sure as to what would have happened if the demand for political autonomy in Bangladesh´s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) had been taken up in the
