A voice, felicitous and mellifluous, floats from across the oceans and continents, carrying with it the unfamiliar sounds and descriptions of American life.

COMMUNAL CONFLICT, the biggest unresolved political dynamic of Independent India, has been the subject of a number of books and innumerable articles in this country.

Are the notions of honour, dignity and esteem of relevance in our times? Most Indians would think not.

While the WikiLeaks on Pakistan has not revealed anything that Indian analysts did not suspect or know, what it has proved beyond doubt is that country’s importance as a strategic asset for the United

The 1990s saw an outpouring of books on Central Asia, a region that had newly emerged from the vast unknown of Soviet Asia. The emergence of five new republics, four times the size of western Europe, in the Asian heartland excited the imagination of scholars, travellers and journalists, who went on to produce a stream of books on the subject. Compendium type books on Central Asia proliferated with several published in every country even remotely interested in that part of the world. This was virgin

The floods in Pakistan have elicited worldwide sympathy and assistance. They have also inadvertently uncovered the seamier side of Pakistan’s polity.