March Issue!!!   Laxmi Murthy makes a case for the legacy and relevance of feminism and the Women's Movement in Southasia | Hartman de Souza observes how a conglomeration of mining companies, politicians and real-estate developers are drying up Goa's natural springs and wells in pursuit of iron | The adversity and achievements of a Tamil woman over the course of a century-long life mirror the tragedy of the Sri Lankan north. |   Web Exclusive   READ Meera Nanda's response to Vijay Prashad's review of he book, 'The God Market'! |   March Issue!!!   Laxmi Murthy makes a case for the legacy and relevance of feminism and the Women's Movement in Southasia | Hartman de Souza observes how a conglomeration of mining companies, politicians and real-estate developers are drying up Goa's natural springs and wells in pursuit of iron | The adversity and achievements of a Tamil woman over the course of a century-long life mirror the tragedy of the Sri Lankan north. |   March Issue!!!   Laxmi Murthy makes a case for the legacy and relevance of feminism and the Women's Movement in Southasia | Hartman de Souza observes how a conglomeration of mining companies, politicians and real-estate developers are drying up Goa's natural springs and wells in pursuit of iron | The adversity and achievements of a Tamil woman over the course of a century-long life mirror the tragedy of the Sri Lankan north. |   COMMENT   Ashley Tellis faults Laxmi Murthy's 'In defence of symbolism' for mischaracterising the history of the feminism |  

Table Of Contents

July 2009



Southasian Briefs

Round-up of regional news


Voices


Report

Capturing Karachi

      By: Imran Ghori

Like 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 Tantry

Two decades of conflict has had an irreversible affect on the Kashmiri language.


Analysis

Opium den

      By: Matthew DuPee

From a focus on eradicating poppy agriculture, the link between traffickers and insurgents must be understood and tackled.

Red-faced

      By: Raja Sarkar

Will the left learn its lesson in West Bengal?


Cover

The mid-summer ferment

      By: C K Lal

After 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 Thakur

Regardless of the new ban on the Maoists, Naxalite rhetoric will continue to find fertile ground.

The pagoda's repudiation

      By: Larry Jagan

Once 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 Wickramaratne

The discussions around the future of power-sharing between the Centre and provinces must not be allowed to cool.

283,000 displaced

      By: Dru Chandrasekera

Essay

Academics to Obama: Forget the militaries! Demilitarisation, development and sustainable peace

      By: New York University Institute of Public Knowledge Working Group

Reframing 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.


Photo Feature

The hill people of Bandarban

      By: Enam Talukder

Southasiasphere

From the heavens

      By: C K Lal

Mediafile


Reflections

Spice island or bland nation?

      By: Nalaka Gunawardene

Despite 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 Swain

Six songs and three dances: 'Behind the curtain' by Gregory D Booth

      By: Prasenjit Chowdhury

Europeans on Nagas: 'Naga Identities' by Michael Oppitz

      By: Kekhriesituo Yhome

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Girija Prasad Koirala, (1925-2010),  four-time prime minister of Nepal, died just after noon on 20 March after a protracted illness. Credited with sculpting the peace deal that ended the decade-long Maoist insurgency, GP Koirala’s political career spanning more than 60 years is also a history of the movement for democracy in Nepal.
Read Kanak Mani Dixit's Obit: 'Southasian democrat dies at the helm'

Plus: Read 'GP: Man of the Moment', the introduction to Koirala's Simple Convictions: My Struggle for Peace and Democracy on the life, politics and legacy of GP Koirala

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Sophia Furber shines a light on the phenomenon of suicides by migrant workers in West Asia and probes the abuse and exploitation behind it.

PLUS in the story: Clips from Kesang Tseten's work-in-progress documentary Saving Dolma about Nepali migrant workers in the Gulf.

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