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Published in: openSecurity'The core problem is the elites, not the people': Sanka Abayawardena respondsIs Sanka Abayawardena a government stooge, Sinhala nationalist, or peace activist? He warns his critics against...
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Published in: openSecurityNation-building in Sri Lanka: the potential and the promiseThis week is the third anniversary of the end the Sri Lankan civil war. Yet there is hope: it lies within Sri...
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Published in: openIndiaOut of view: the unnameable poor in India and Bangladesh
My friends in teaching jobs in Afghanistan and Korea or aid organizations in Bangladesh, nearly all returned to the...
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Published in: HomeWelcome Magnus - incoming Editor-in-ChiefOur outgoing Editor-in-Chief introduces us to his successor, Magnus Nome, and invites us to share the kind of...
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Published in: openIndiaPost-communist Bengal
Bengal’s transition is from the mismanagement of a vanguard party to the misrule of the lumpenproletariat.
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Published in: openIndiaBicycle bombs to Bollywood - immigration and identity
One breach of the law cancels out another.
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Published in: openIndiaIndia’s diplomatic stand on the resolution against Sri Lanka
India has tried to strike a balance between support for the Sri Lankan government and calls for Tamil rehabilitation...
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Published in: openIndiaIndian calendar art: the popular picture storyWhat was the impact of these paintings on patterns of worship in public and private spaces, in the creation and/or...
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Published in: openIndiaDeath penalty: the Indian authorities’ incredible myopia
How much longer will the Indian state cling to the machinery of death, both of the judicial and extra-judicial variety?
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Published in: openIndiaIndia: the curious case of a new pan-regionalism
India must realize that large republics, with a strong federal structure and the vibrancy of diverse and even...
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Published in: Home(Fill in the blank) … - Muslim
The cynical manipulation of the category of ‘radical-Muslim’ in order to advance a political trajectory and...
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Published in: openSecurityReconciliation is not happening in Sri Lanka, and the problem isn't a question of time
The Tamil call for independent statehood stemmed from a very basic need for security against genocide. For many,...
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Published in: HomeIndia: dynasty, corruption and plunder
A short history of looting and dynastic power in India
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Published in: openSecurity'What Sri Lanka is...': acknowledging the ethnic conflict in post-war reconciliationThe term 'local reconciliation' may seem benign, but recent research amongst Tamils in the north of the country...
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Published in: openSecurityPeacebuilding in Kashmir transcends the religious divideThe conflict in Kashmir has largely been seen through the prism of religious antagonism. New research on...
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Published in: openSecurityTrial by media: Bangladesh's 'International' Crimes Tribunal
Phone tapping, court orders and vitriolic condemnations of the accused point to a disconcerting unity between the...
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Published in: openIndiaMega dams: campaigning against the plans of the Indian governmentIn demonstrations barely reported in the media, peasants and students in the Northeastern Indian state of Assam are...
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Published in: openIndiaChronicle of a non-violent protest: Jobat, Madhya Pradesh (India)
For more than three weeks over 130 people have carried out the longest occupation of government-owned land ever...
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Published in: openIndiaHas India reached the limits to economic reforms?
The government of India’s decision to roll back legislation that would allow FDI in multi-brand retail is...
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Published in: HomeIndia’s proliferating relations with Africa
India’s demand for resource security, potential trade and investment opportunities and a strategic partnership with...