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Friday 19th March

Life by traffic light - Delhi's street kids

Spriha Srivastava, 19 March 2010

Can India begin to channel some of the creative energy of its twenty-five million street children? Why don’t school lunch schemes work?

Wednesday 17th March

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Mark Perryman, 17 March 2010

Win a T-shirt from Philosophy football.

Tuesday 16th March

Sri Lanka's forgotten Tamils

Melanie Gouby, 16 March 2010

Rejected by the rest of the Tamil population and ignored by the Sinhalese authorities, tea workers who migrated from Tamil Nadu centuries ago are exploited in the plantations of the Sri Lankan highlands

Monday 15th March

Moving Parts: Prajapati

Ruchir Joshi, 15 March 2010

In this excerpt from Ruchir Joshi's 'Moving Parts' series, Ruchir visits the silica quartz processing-plant in Godhra where many local workers claim that hazardous working conditions are resulting in serious health problems

Friday 5th March

Bangladesh erupts in ethnic violence

Pinaki Roy, 5 March 2010

Bangladesh has been rocked by the recent flaring up of decades old ethnic tensions, as Bengali settlers set fire to hundreds of indigenous homes. Pinaki Roy reports from Dhaka on the latest developments and explores the background to the violence

Thursday 4th March

India's big guns bazaar

Nitasha Kaul, 4 March 2010

Security is too important a question to be left to the defence sector alone.

Saturday 27th February

Aman ki Asha: the stars are aligned

Rakesh Mani, 27 February 2010

There are some rare occasions when the powers-that-be discover that it is ‘realistic’ to support civilian peace initiatives; when the manipulation of grievance has to be put in rapid reverse…

Thursday 25th February

Reimagining democracy - India more than counts

Anthony Barnett, 25 February 2010

The founder of openDemocracy on a mind-changing trip to India.

Ethnic riots provoke arson in Bangladesh's troubled Chittagong Hill Tracts

Josephine Whitaker, 25 February 2010

Chittagong Hill Tracts shaken by riots and arson. India and Pakistan take steps to rebuild their relationship. Niger leaders rule themselves out of elections. Darfur rebels contradict president’s claim that the war is over. All this and more in today’s briefing.

Wednesday 24th February

Beware Bhopal! Legal framework needed for India's use of nuclear energy

V N Haridas and Yash Thomas Mannully, 24 February 2010

The aftermath of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal in 1984 has vital lessons for India as it seeks to commercialise its nuclear industry without an adequate legal framework covering compensation and liability

Friday 12th February

Sri Lanka's self-signed death warrant

Chaminda Jayanetti, 12 February 2010

Sri Lanka's imperilled democracy

Thursday 11th February

My Name is Khan and I am an Indian

Priyal Sanghavi, 11 February 2010

Freedom of speech in India has always been a tricky issue, and the furore over Shah Rukh Khan's comments shows (updated)

Thursday 4th February

Af-Pak: what strategic depth?

Aziz Hakimi, 4 February 2010

Pakistan's military and political class have obsessed over gaining 'strategic depth' in Afghanistan for years, but the at times absurd concept is incompatible with Pakistan's zero-sum approach to regional politics.

Thursday 28th January

Sri Lanka votes against compromise

Melanie Gouby, 28 January 2010

Sri Lanka’s opposition talked of giving concessions to the country’s defeated Tamil minority. The Sinhalese majority said no. Melanie Gouby analyses Sri Lanka’s presidential election

Wednesday 27th January

Europe's bitter pill for India will cost lives

David Cronin, 27 January 2010

The EU's trade negotiations with India bring back memories of colonial exploitation

Sunday 17th January

Sri Lanka's war chiefs fight for the spoils of peace

Melanie Gouby, 17 January 2010

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksawas expected to win the January 26th election hands down - but he didn’t reckon on former army chief General Sarath Fonseka entering the fray

Thursday 24th December

Nepal's Tibetans pressured by China's growing influence

Alexander Sehmer, 24 December 2009

Some in Nepal fear that China is stirring up tensions between their countrymen and the Tibetan refugee population

Monday 21st December

Balochistan rejects deal and fights on for freedom

Peter Tatchell, 21 December 2009

Baloch nationalist leaders have rejected the latest settlement package proposed by the Pakistani government, on the grounds that it is inadequate and coincides with increased military repression

Wednesday 16th December

Keeping the corporation honest in Visakhapatnam, India

Peter Newell, Harsh Jaitli, and R.D. Sampath Kumar, 16 December 2009

When legal-constitutional guarantees fail, public hearings may be the only option available to those who have paid the price for India's rapid economic growth.

Tuesday 1st December