Category: India & Its Neighbours

Quote of the Day

Tarik Jan, “a gentle-mannered scholar at Islamabad’s Institute of Policy Studies” quoted in TIME Magazine, “Pakistan: Divided by Faith” by Aryn Baker: “We [Muslims] were the legal rulers of India, and in 1857 the British...

Taslima Nasreen and a deafening silence

Came across a great post by Sandeep on the recent assault on Taslima Nasreen in Hyderabad. Some things stand out in this remarkable episode: The deafening silence of the liberal activists on the incident...

China’s long march to superpower status

Came across this thought provoking story in a recent edition of The Economist on China’s military might, “The long march to be a superpower” (Aug 2nd ’07 edition). Some excerpts (emphasis mine) “…American global...