... in a New World. Sri Lanka: In the Shadow of the Indian Elephant Barbara Crossette Before Osama bin Laden rewrote the script, velop. Whatever happens next in Afghan­ American officials did not regard the vast istan, which the industrial nations are now Indian subcontinent...

... Tamils in Switzerland, drop of rocky hills. Every year, in August, a number more significant than it might at this Swiss field is colonized for a weekend first appear. For there are less than 3-5 mil­ by a crowd of Tamils. Some are resident in lion Tamils in Sri Lanka. And there are only...

... without end—has put the global economy on a dead-end track. Its astonishingly simple argument—that growth cannot continue forever—runs counter to the assumptions of nearly all of today's economic models. The sri concept rests on a belief that it is possible to place a dollar value on an ecosystem...

... owed to sustained campaigning by caste associations, political parties, trade unions, intellectuals, and religious leaders. Two individual reformers stand out: Sri Narayana Guru, a devout Hindu and champion of the Ezhavas, his own caste; and EMS Namboodiripad, a Brahmin by birth, Marxist revolutionary...

...’” (XIX:1) Crossette, Barbara; "Sri Lanka: In the Shadow of the Indian Meyer, Karl E.; '“Regime Change' and Other Enigmas” (XIX:3) Elephant” (XIX: 1) Meyer, Karl E.; “Slouching Down Xenophobe Alley” (XIX:4) Davis, Craig...

... was ordered by Kabul’s former supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, who said his decision was based on the com­ mand of God and the Koran. Similarly, in predominantly Buddhist Sri Lanka, three suicide bombers in 1998 crashed into Colombo’s most sacred shrine, the Temple of the Tooth, killing eight...

..., Indira’s in those bloodstained days of November son and another victim of her disastrous 1984 were not infrequently told that the statecraft, this time with respect to Sri Sikhs had it coming. Known for their mar­ Lanka). In 1992, it was Prime Minister tial prowess and their skills in agriculture...

... in the boost the economies of the labor-exporting Remittances: The Perpetual Migration Machine 39 countries, which gives their citizens the public, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, hope of being able to remain at home, yet Mexico, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, and Sri at the same time they contribute...

...Robert Nickelsberg; Judith Matloff Robert Nickelsberg, a TIME magazine contract photographer for 25 years, has covered conflicts in India, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Judith Matloff teaches conflict reporting at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She...

..., dynasty was decimated by gunfire, is a col­ the Nepali bourgeoisie has not had the im­ lection of buildings on rambling lawns with pact on politics that its counterparts have its centerpiece that dark, brooding, slightly in, for example, Sri Lanka or Thailand or sinister 1960s tower looking down...

... governments to identify and deport these illegal immigrants. The Indian government directly shelters and assists over 100,000 Tibetan refugees and 64,000 Sri Lankans. The UNHCR has registered over 31,000 refugees and asylum-seekers in India, mainly from Afghanistan and Myanmar, and in smaller numbers from...

... of Beijing’s behind-the-scenes moves to court India’s smaller neighbors, and is wary of Chinese inroads in trade and investment in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal. In the past, both China and India have backed a less-than-democratic absolute monarchy in Nepal because it provided the stability both needed...

... 1988, herself ven­ which General Zia was abetting. Indian in­ tured that the fatal crash might well have telligence operatives had a record of under­ been an “act of God.” cover meddling in virtually every country in But wait, what about the Central Intel­ South Asia, most tragically in Sri Lanka...

... Pakistan* Spain Angola* Democratic Republic Iraq Peru Sri Lanka* Armenia of Congo* Israel Philippines Sudan* Azerbaijan Eritrea* Kenya Russia* Tajikistan...

..., project director of LGBT Pride in Vietnam, is a Fulbright scholar at Pennsylvania State University’s Community Psychology & Social Change program. Coral Herrera Gómez is a Costa Rican-based gender communications consultant. Hans Billimoria works with Grassrooted Trust, a Sri Lankan...

... my outline is the shaming fact that the bravest martyrs to peace in our own time have been murdered by their own unforgiving flock. Thus Mohandas Gandhi was fatally assailed by a Hindu, Anwar Sadat by Muslim soldiers, and Yitzhak Rabin by a demented Jew. So, too, with independent Sri Lanka’s...

..., and different but mu­ feuds. Indonesia and Sri Lanka have battled tually reinforcing missions. separatists. In recent years, these organizations But Africa has suffered worst of all, es­ have closed ranks behind two propositions: pecially in recent months. A year...

... monarchy must do Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Angola, more to end its governmental and Liberia, Zimbabwe, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, non-governmental support for ex­ Pakistan, Indonesia, and Myanmar. tremist Islam, which is now the It is Zakaria who came up with the use­...