Open Skies, Closed Minds
by Hemant Arjyal
South Asia's flag-carrier airlines are faltering due to political interference and myopic management, says the magazine HIMAL South Asia in its most recent issue.
(-Cover Story)

Cover
The Non-Flag Carriers
by Suman Shakya
The internal airways of India, Pakistan and Nepal are in ferment as infant carriers grapple for a toehold in a market that might just expand beyond all expectation..

Features

Temples of the Salt Range
by Salman Rashid

Arts and Society

Would Billo or Chief Saab Approve?
by Arif Shamim
Urdu and Punjabi pop have swept Pakistani teenagers, as well as adults, off their fee.

(-Full Story)

Time Now for Counselling

Profile
His Holiness the Ambassador
by Martijn van Beek
A Laddakhi Tibetan-Buddhist monk serving as Indian Ambassador to Mongolia.

Review
Junglee Girl

Post Cold War Developments in South Asia

Departure
Razia Bhatti, Rita Sebastian

Mongolia's Mahayana Mania
by Prabhu Ghate

Departments
Mail
More Bangladesh, Please
Himal for Post-Colonials
More Than Good Intentions
Royal Tiger
Closer to the Abyss
Human Cost of Trekking
No Crees in Bihar
Arms Aggrandisement
Subscribing No More
The Height of Nonsense
ON THE WAY UP

Follow-Up

Commentary
Let's Keep It That Way
Do You Belong Here, Abimael?
Time to Woo the Minorities
Play up! Play up!

Young South Asian

Clash of the Titans
by Hemant Arjyal

Refugees within, refugees Without
The Chakma are too few to be so fragmented and scattered, but there is little incentive for anyone to try and redress their condition. (-Full Story)

Analysis
Using and Abusing Gandhi
by Ramchandra Guha
Gandhi is for most Indians the ultimate touchstone of moral authority, playing a part in public discourse roughly equivalent to that of Thomas Jefferson in the United States or the Quran in Islamic countries. It is thus hardly surprising that he is quoted on every side of every major debate in India today.

(-Excerpt)

Opinion

Caught in the Nationalist Web"
by Mubashir Hassani
The prescription of nationalism which brought wealth and dignity to the imperial nations failed to produce for the countries of South Asia. (-Full Story)

Neelan Tiruchelvam on devolution
by Neelan Tiruchelvam
Amidst all the chaos of political violence, Sri Lanka is engaged in fashioning a workable system of regional self-government which will interest the other South Asians.

Briefs
Cleaner Air in Kathmandu
Tigers in Central Asia
Out of Siberia
Dead Eyes See Again
The Peerless Peerzada Brothers of Lahore
Royal Reading
Rickshaw in the Time of Hartal
Colombo's Instant Condoms
Who Are Nepal's Maoists?

Mediafile

Saarconomy
Believing Manmohan Singh
by Mukul

Liberalisation Only in Name
by by Brij Khindaria

Abominably Yours

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