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A New Way In Afghanistan

A new way in Afghanistan

For long-term peace to emerge in South Asia, India and Pakistan must collaborate, not in Kashmir initially, but in a more immediately volatile landscape: Afghanistan. It is here that India…

Force-multiplying Outrage

Force-multiplying outrage

The revulsion to the anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims generated wide-scale protests throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The film, having been made in the US, sparked furious protests…

World Economies

World economies

The Asian Development Bank has cut its 2009 growth forecast for the region’s developing economies to 7.6 per cent, citing tighter credit and soaring food and energy costs. It maintained…

New Great Game

New great game

North Africa and Central Asia seem to share the same ills: dictatorships, widespread corruption, poverty, high youth unemployment, total media control and very limited political space for any opposition. No…

Luxury Firms Pin Hopes On China

Luxury firms pin hopes on China

Clad in a black and orange Prada winter coat with a diamond-shaped pattern she snapped up during a trip to Milan, Jennifer Ren embodies China's nouveau riche. For the 27-year-old…

Promise And Premise

Promise and premise

Of all the regions in the world South Asia continues to be at odds with the trend toward greater regional economic cooperation. Unresolved disputes and the zero-sum nature of Pakistan-India…

Indo-Pak Trade

Indo-Pak trade

Pakistan and India are the neighbouring, developing countries with common border in the South Asian region and also "natural partners for trade". India has comparative advantage in terms of the…

The Enigma Of Sonia Gandhi

The enigma of Sonia Gandhi

No leader in the world is like Sonia Gandhi. She is a European leading a major Asian power. A Roman Catholic, and perhaps a practising one though she makes no…

Rising Inequalities

Rising inequalities

Rajat Nag, the Managing Director of Asian Development Bank (ADB), has urged regional governments "to tackle rising income inequality with more urgency, warning any delay could undermine social cohesion and…

An India-China Nightmare

An India-China nightmare

I enjoyed Pankaj Mishra’s well-researched episodes from Asia’s intellectual history that string together his thesis on how the East had had enough of the West’s political bullying and cultural domineering.…