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...

[repost] 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.

PUNKASILA is a fluid and collaborative project which includes graduates and current students from Yogyakarta (Indonesia). They perform in military fatigues, have guitars shaped like automatic weapons and sing humourous and provocative songs about Indonesian politics and culture. Recently they made the news after receiving a A$10,000 arts grant.

The people living on a tiny collection of islands known as Tuvalu will see their homeland covered by the rising Pacific in their lifetime. DOMENICA SETTLE reports on a new kind of refugee.