Table Of Contents
July 2009
Southasian Briefs
Round-up of regional news
Voices
Report
Capturing Karachi
By: Imran GhoriLike nationalist political parties the world over, those in Karachi have come to understand the power that can come from a fear-based agenda. Their bogey: ‘Talibanisation’.
Tracing the aagurs
By: Ishfaq TantryTwo decades of conflict has had an irreversible affect on the Kashmiri language.
Cover
The mid-summer ferment
By: C K LalAfter the massive success of people’s movements during 2008, by mid-2009 Southasia seems to be burning under the pre-monsoon heat.
Bad medicine
By: Sankarshan ThakurRegardless of the new ban on the Maoists, Naxalite rhetoric will continue to find fertile ground.
The pagoda's repudiation
By: Larry JaganOnce again, everything appears to be aligning against the Burmese junta, but once again it may not make a difference.
13th hotly debated Amendment and beyond
By: Jayampathy WickramaratneThe discussions around the future of power-sharing between the Centre and provinces must not be allowed to cool.
283,000 displaced
By: Dru ChandrasekeraEssay
Academics to Obama: Forget the militaries! Demilitarisation, development and sustainable peace
By: New York University Institute of Public Knowledge Working GroupReframing a regional approach to South Asia for the new administration of Barack Obama. A report prepared by the New York University Institute of Public Knowledge Working Group on South Asia, including Amrita Basu, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Nyla Ali Khan, David Ludden, Zia Mian, Senzil Nawid, Sahar Shafaqat, Kamala Visweswaran and Chitralekha Zutshi.
Mediafile
Reflections
Spice island or bland nation?
By: Nalaka GunawardeneDespite a long history of openness, Sri Lanka today is highly suspicious of anything ‘foreign’ or different.
Bookshelf
Review
My dirty breath: 'Cast out' by Basudev Sunani
By: Rabindra K SwainSix songs and three dances: 'Behind the curtain' by Gregory D Booth
By: Prasenjit ChowdhuryEuropeans on Nagas: 'Naga Identities' by Michael Oppitz
By: Kekhriesituo YhomeOn the way up
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(Related stories in our August edition)
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| Indigenising extremism – Iqbal Khattak writes about how the rise of the so-called ‘Punjabi Taliban’ is another step in the escalating spiral of extremist violence in Pakistan. |
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| Minor offence – Dilnaz Boga on the children who have been gunned down since January in the escalating cycle of violence in Jammu & Kashmir. |
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