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Pilgrimage to nowhere

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

Feature

Giving women the chance for leadership

Giving women the chance for leadership

Dr Regina Papa, Educationalist and social activist

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

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