Articles with tag: South
Historian Amaresh Misra on South Asia
AliHasan Cemendtaur Sep 28, 2008 interacts: 351Left alone, South Asia would have evolved more smoothly into the Industrial age, says historian Amaresh Misra
India Pakistan Talks
Aparna Pande May 19, 2008 interacts: 13India and Pakistan are to have Foreign Minister and Foreign Secretary level talks starting May 20 in Islamabad. It is time to once again look at the chessboard and see what has changed.
Sumera Jawad: The Excavated Linearity
Nadeem Alam Nov 10, 2007 interacts: 1Sumera, through her brush, tries to explore the true image of contemporary woman by exhuming the historical representation of the South Asian woman.
On disowning Bhagat Singh and Other Vagaries
AliHasan Cemendtaur Oct 26, 2007 interacts: 48“Zia Ul Haq ordered to destroy all Hindi and Gurmukhi books of the library. The books were thrown in a nala (sewage channel) that ran by the library.”
Do Pakistanis deserve a democratic system?
Shanay Khuda Jan 11, 2007 interacts: 253We should not expect that a heavenly voice will say “kun (do it)”, and we would get democracy.
Killing Fields No More - One Week in Angkor, Cambodia
Feroz Qutabshahi Aug 17, 2006 interacts: 14Siem Reap (pronounced “See-em Ree-ep”) in Northern Cambodia is roughly a 50-minute plane ride from Bangkok, but a journey into a different world, a small sleepy town near Angkor, a UNESCO world heritage city of literally 100s of temples.
The Political-Economy of the South Asian Economic Union
Athar Osama Dec 30, 2005 interacts: 91While SAFTA doesn't seem to make immediate economic sense, a South Asian Economic Union (SAEU) may still make considerable political sense, provided its anchor country, India, displays the kind of 'self-less' leadership required to make it a reality.
SAARC Syndrome: Asia's Burden
Syed J Hussain Dec 3, 2005 interacts: 152This is Asia, completely corrupt and bogged down under its own weight. Adding a straw to break the camel’s back is SAARC,Adding a straw to break the camel’s back is SAARC. In the last two decades it has done nothing except to raise hopes and t
Notes from Latin America
Rezwan Bajwa Oct 14, 2005 interacts: 27A teacher of mine once said that if Intezaar Hussein were a Spaniard or an Englishman he would have been acclaimed as a phenomenon.
Dialogue, State and Utopia
Pratap B Mehta Aug 25, 2005 interacts: 11The prospects for an improvement in relations between India and Pakistan are limited by the fact that ’dialogue’ is the most unmeaning word in the lexicon of South Asian politics.
Mahadev Gobind Ranade (1842-1901)
Yasser Latif Hamdani Mar 19, 2005 interacts: 571...some historical figures, intellectual giants in their own right, who Pakistanis know nothing about, and certainly many Indians as well...
Dude, Where’s My Reference Point?
Samina Shahidi Feb 18, 2005 interacts: 56The edge to Harold is that he affirms to us the mainstream perception of the Asian Ivy League quota buster. It is almost as if the filmmakers are rubbing our noses in the very stereotype of the Asian takeover-a tyranny based on the work ethics America has
The Navel of Asia
Fitaa Feeraz Sep 26, 2004 interacts: 4Nowhere on earth’s surface is there a comparable cluster of mountains. In a chaos of contours at the heart, or perhaps the navel of Asia, six major mountain systems lie locked together.
India-Pakistan: Friends on Visa
Beena Sarwar Mar 13, 2004 interacts: 25When people from India and Pakistan meet, peace seems the most favoured option.
UC Berkley’s 19th South Asia Conference
Ras Siddiqui Feb 29, 2004 interacts: 10The selective nature here becomes all the more important because out of all South Asian countries, it was certainly Pakistan that happened to be the “flavor of the week” in the American news media complete with several stories on nuclear prol
