World Affairs: Asia
Lead Feature
Pilgrimage to nowhere
A year on from Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Fatima Bhutto visits the family mausoleum and reflects on the poisonous legacy of her late aunt, a woman
"without principles"
In asia
The road to riches
- By Tim Adams
- 08 January
Since independence, Indian artists have been engaged in obsessively constructing an identity for their fractured, ever-changing nation
Diminishing returns
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 08 January
A poignant story of life in Mumbai gets undermined by corporate money
Slumdog Millionaire (15)
dir: Danny Boyle
The serial killer of Kittur
- By Aravind Adiga
- 08 January
Exclusive publication of a short story by the Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger
Cable wades into Chagos injustice row
- By Sean Carey
- 07 January
Senior Lib Dem Vince Cable has thrown his weight behind a new cross party group that aims to persuade David Miliband to right a very old British injustice
Outlook stormy for Obama
- By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
- 15 December
The inclusion in Obama's team of so many figures from the past heralds the continuation of the policies of the past, some of which, even among Bushites, were seen to be stupid
Landmine ban failing
- By Samira Shackle
- 11 December
The recent Oslo convention banning landmines marks an important step forward, but it also illustrates the limits of international law
More in asia
When enough is enough
- By Soumya Bhattacharya
- 11 December 2008
Trouble in paradise
- By Carole Seymour-Jones
- 11 December 2008
Winter’s chill threat
- By Sam Alexandroni
- 11 December 2008
Mumbai massacre
- By Soumya Bhattacharya
- 04 December 2008
The India that is not and never was
- By Sholto Byrnes
- 04 December 2008
Open your eyes, Dave
- By Fatima Bhutto
- 04 December 2008
Becoming a pariah state
- By Richard Watson
- 04 December 2008
