The Nobel Prize is a pampered institution. Nobel laureates more so. So when Amartya Sen won this year´s "Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences", the tom-
Providing a reaction to Amartya Sen's having won the Nobel Prize, Mohammed Muzammil, Reader in Economics at Lucknow University, writes:
If there is a question which Indian economist
The birthplace of the Buddha, far from being Nepal's pride, is a disgrace.
The world knows of Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha, through the white-plastered Mayadevi temple
Caught between Baghdad and Washington, Secretary-General Kofi Annan leans on subcontinental shoulders.
In recent years, the relationship between the United States and the United Nations has soured so much
Two 50-year-old siblings still play tit-for-tat.
For all of lnder Kumar Gujral´s overtures to Pakistan, it is still ludicrously difficult for Pakistanis to visit India,
Ruling the Unruly
As you enter Afghanistan by road from Pakistan at Torkham, leaving the border checkpost, there is a small hand-painted notice in Pushtoo, nailed to a tree
What was the Bhutanese Home Minister doing for so many days in Delhi? He left empty-handed and a dissident leader lives to fight another day.
In 1989, Teknath Rizal,
Tibet Goes Hollywood" said the Newsweek cover, while the British newspaper The Independent wrote of a "love affair" between Beverly Hills and the high plateau. There are
