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Category: South Asia

MODIfication On OBOR?

The Narendra Modi government in India plans to change its (foreign) policy towards neighbouring China. New Delhi has decided not to criticise or oppose Beijing’s high-profile ‘One Belt One Road’ […]

The Legacy Of Asma Jahangir

Human Rights leader Asma Jahangir of Pakistan died in Lahore on February 11, 2018, at the age of 66. Those – who knew her personally – felt the loss of […]

Chinese Missile System In Pak Hands!

China plans to supply a sophisticated missile tracking system to its ‘all-weather ally’ Pakistan. Quoting the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Hong Kong-based ‘South China Morning Post’ daily has […]

Politics: Polity Of Not-So-Fair Tactics?

It may be said that footwear has always played quite a role in politics in different countries. On October 12, 1960, the then Soviet Leader, Nikita Khrushchev, is said to […]

A Gentle Breeze, Secular In Nature, Passes… Away

When fundamentalism has started posing a serious threat to the global community, an immanent flame of secularism and feminist theory has been extinguished. Saba Mahmood – the Pakistan-born American anthropologist […]

Desire Aimed At Marx, Mao & Man In Nepal

In what may be seen as a step toward consolidation of communist forces, two major Left parties of Nepal – the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) or CPN-UML and […]