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Asia
India: After the blackout
11 October 2012

As India’s growth rates hit the buffers, the poor are sinking beneath a tide of seeming government indifference to their plight as politicians focus on looking after their cronies. Is it goodbye to the Asian tiger?

International Politics
The military and the mullahs
23 August 2010

The Pakistani state has a long history of nurturing
jihadis as a means of dominating Afghanistan a

International Politics
Why the Taliban are winning in Afghanistan
22 June 2010

As Washington and London struggle to prop up a puppet government over which Hamid Karzai has no cont

International Politics
Spiritual awakening
17 December 2009

Globalisation has been good for gods in the Indian subcontinent. As the region has remade itself, it

International Politics
Pakistan reborn?
21 February 2008

Confounding all predictions, the Pakistani people have clearly demonstrated that they want to choose

Religion
Copts & Brothers
13 December 2007

A surprising dialogue between the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's Coptic Christians suggests a new wa

Books
How the east was won
05 July 2007

The British empire was built not simply on greed, cruelty and oppression - but on surprising exchang

International Politics
Schools of hope
30 April 2007

With the virtual collapse of government schools, many parents have to depend on Wahhabi-funded madra

Books
Unearthing history
23 April 2007

City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek lives in Roman Egypt

Peter Parsons Weiden

International Politics
The last Mughal and a clash of civilisations
16 October 2006

East and west face each other across a divide that some call a religious war. Suicide jihadis take w

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