Kashmir evokes strong emotions in both India and Pakistan. For so long has the dispute been looked at from the respective nationalistic viewpoints, always mutually exclusive and hostile, that objectivity
The Conditions of Listening: Essays on Religion, History and Politics in South Asia
by Richard Burghart
Edited by C. J. Fuller and Jonathan Spencer
Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996
Testing Times: The Global Stake in a Nuclear Test Ban
by Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik
Dag Hammarskjold Foundation
Uppsala, Sweden, 1996
The Challenge to Democracy in Nepal: A Political History
by T Louise Brown
Routledge, London and New York, 1996
239 pages, £ 40
Letters to Emily: Glimpses of Life from Inside and Outside the Haveli
by Shireen Nana nee Mirza
Kifayat Academy, Karachi, 1994 and 1996
125 pages
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
Refugees and Regional Security in South Asia by S.D. Muni & Lok Raj Baral
In impoverished and politically volatile South Asia, the problem of refugees and migrant movement have
Post Cold War Developments in South Asia
RBSA Publishers, Jaipur
As with all regions of the world, South Asia did not remain unaffected by the end of the Cold War,
The growing number of South Asian women who challenge traditional racial or gender roles—and write about them—now includes one more North America-based author. Bombay-bom California resident Ginu Kamani
Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
by Frederick Lenz
St. Martin's Press
Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
IPower Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal
Text by Keith Dowman
Photography by Kevin Bubriski
nner Traditions International, Vermont
Warrior Gentlemen: "Gurkhas" in the Western Imagination
Warrior Gentlemen is not merely an addition to the voluminous literature on the Gurkhas of Nepal (see 'The Gurkha Guide&
