[Reader-list] November/December 2005 Issue of Himal Southasian

[Editorial]

www.himalmag.com

The November December 2005 issue of Himal Southasian is out in hard and soft copy.

The 100-page issue includes articles on 'Soft Borders' and Transfrontier matters; reformatting SAARC; the Kashmir Quake; Southasian public television; the India-Pakistan Bomb; the poorest of the poor; Nepali Maobaadi holiday; Bihar's modern zamindari; J&K human rights; Where Assam is; the Iranian pipeline and Delhi; melting glaciers and global warming; women and Hindi cinema; Jehadis of Pakistan; Lankan peace; India and the ID card; Tiger conservation; and so on.

PLUS, Bangladesh special:
The Hope of Dhaka (at SAARC)
Bangladesh and Southasia
Tata in Bangladesh
Dhaka women's wear

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EDITORIAL NOTE
The crossborder mentality

COVER STORY
SAARC and the sovereignty bargain - by | Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Fading history - by | Enoka Lankatilleke
Where is Assam? - by | David Ludden 
The line Durand drew - by | Daniel Lak
Swapping Identities - by | Sara Shneiderman
SAARC: The inevitability of bilateral multilateralism - by | Kanak Mani Dixit 
Jammu's borderlanders - by | Elisa Patnaik
Meghalaya-Sylhet - by | Sanjeeb Kakoty

COMMENTARY
BANGLADESH - The hope of Dhaka 
NEPAL - A very Maobaadi holiday - by | Deepak Thapa
KASHMIR - The deadliest quake 
INDIA . IRAN - Embrace of the strategic partner

FOLLOW UP
Is the magic gone? 

REFLECTION
Brain gain, being brown - by | Cyriac George

REPORT
'She' and the silver screen - by | Sai Paranjpye
The glacier's warning - by | Mahtab Haider
The Tata-Bangla combine - by | Khawaza Main Uddin

PHOTO FEATURE
Streets of Dhaka - by | Firdous Azim & Ayesha Banu
Photographs | Bayazid Akter

ANALYSIS
A backward slide - by | Jehan Perera
The healing can begin here - by | Ravi Nair
Blinded by the Bomb - by | Zia Mian
Wild frontier: Valmiki-Chitwan-Parsa - by | Samir Kumar Sinha
Channel Southasia - by | Aman Malik
A future out of grasp - by | Kunda Dixit
Mind the communication gap - by | Nalaka Gunawadene
Peeking out of your pocket - by | Aman Sethi
Modern zamindari - by | Rakesh Ankit
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times - by | Ishtiaq Hossain

TIME AND A PLACE
Remember the gaam - by | Swara Bhaskar

OPINION
Public TV for the Southasian public - by | Sanjeev Chatterjee
Real broadcasting for a real public - by | Kanak Mani Dixit

SOUTHASIAN MEDIAFILE

SOUTHASIASPHERE
Ways of the wind - by | C K Lal 

REVIEW
Hydro Nationalism - by | Jayanta Bandyopadhyay

LASTPAGE
The menfolk we revere - by | Bhaskar Dasgupta 


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