Tehelka features an interview with Shobhaa Dé about her glamorous book Superstar India which is due this week. She speaks to SHOMA CHAUDHURY about its key concerns, the rich and the young...
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Tibetan activists have taken advantage of the Beijing Olympics later in 2008, to expose China's ongoing occupation of Tibet.
The following analysis by Himal SouthAsia writer Bhuchung K Tsering asks how Beijing and the Tibetans will proceed after the historic Tibetan uprising of March 2008...
The Australian Government's 2020 Summit aimed to "shape a long term strategy for the nation’s future – covering the economy, the nation’s infrastructure, our environment, our farmers, health care, indigenous Australians, the arts, national security, how we improve our system of government, and how we strengthen our communities and ensure nobody is left out of Australia’s future."
NewMatilda.com has a run down of the outcomes from last weekend's gathering.
UN special advisor on Burma Ibrahim Gambari told reporters in New York yesterday that the military’s recent crackdown on peaceful protests represented a significant political setback.
Sri Lanka's monks appear to be a contradiction of what we would expect from the representatives of the Buddhism. They play a significant role in Sri Lanka's ongoing conflict. "Monks of War" - produced by Aljazeera English - gives a us a unique and shocking perspective on Sri Lanka's Buddhism.
Sri Lanka, already under heavy criticism over its human rights record, has ventured in to blocking a website that is sympathetic to the seperatist Tamil Tigers. HAIG BALIAN reports.
Maya Arulpragasam aka MIA has just released her second album Kala. Her work is fresh, provocative and original and she's a 'refugee' from Sri Lanka.
Have you become a passive zombie? Through a three-part documentary recently screened on BBC, Adam Curtis explores the idea of freedom.
