Recent Posts Tagged With 'south asia'

• Did India’s economic miracle begin in 1980? Why?

  Posted on Wednesday November 19th, 2008 at 20:29 in south asia

  Two recent papers - From the Hindu Rate of Growth to the Hindu Rate of Reform, and From ‘Hindu Growth’ to productivity surge: the mystery of Indian growth transition present evidence that India’s growth accelerated starting 1979, an...

• What is so middle about middle class?

  Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 22:45 in south asia

  It is interesting to note in general discourse, the two constitutive words of the phrase ‘middle class’ – middle and class –are both absent in the meaning of the eventual phrase. Middle class is now used more as a referent to ‘people like u...

• Interview with Saira Wasim

  Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 14:18 in south asia, interviews

  Saira Wasim is a noted US based contemporary artist from Pakistan. Ms. Wasim has carved a niche for herself with her innovative and meticulously crafted Persian miniatures, which she employs to make devastating political and social commentary. Ms. Wa...

• Musharraf by Numbers: Corruption

  Posted on Saturday February 2nd, 2008 at 17:24 in south asia

  Hard data on Pakistan is hard to come by. Where available, doubts exist as to its veracity. For example, it is widely believed that the government numbers on inflation are fudged. The census numbers are hugely controversial for it is used as a basis ...

• And the news is…An ‘out of control’ General, freedom, democracy, and strawberry tarts

  Posted on Sunday November 4th, 2007 at 23:25 in south asia

  On a slow news day, Western journalists, genuinely apathetic (subconsciously) - for such truths never scar their conscious minds – took to telling the world about how ‘Pakistan’s Musharraf’ - You know it is nice of them to clear u...

• Mohajirs, Karachi, and Pakistani politics - part 2

  Posted on Tuesday July 31st, 2007 at 13:21 in south asia

  Mohajir Quami Movement In 1978, Altaf Hussain formed a student organization called the All Pakistan Mohajir Student Organization (APMSO). The nascent student organization quickly leached students from Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba, the student wing of Jamaa...

• Karachi, Mohajirs, and Pakistani politics (part 1)

  Posted on Wednesday July 25th, 2007 at 19:45 in south asia

  Pakistani politics cannot be understood without paying close attention to the deep ethnic cleavages that line its polity. The seminal moments in its brief history – the 1971 war with India which led to the creation of Bangladesh, the horrific viole...

• 'Wax'ing poetic

  Posted on Wednesday May 23rd, 2007 at 15:15 in south asia

  Emily Wax is her Washington Post article states (without corroboration), “India has a growing middle class estimated at 300 million people.” According to World Bank, India's GDP was $796 billion in 2006. Lets do some simple math now - As...

• Sidhwa's Lahore ' a lovingly embroidered family heirloom

  Posted on Monday May 21st, 2007 at 15:38 in book reviews, south asia

  A city hasn't been showered with such love since Dalrymple wrote about Delhi. Bapsi Sidhwa's edited volume on Lahore in fact far exceeds it. After all, Dalrymple was nothing but a foreigner who had only spent a few years in Delhi when he wrote the bo...

• Sachar report

  Posted on Friday April 27th, 2007 at 00:38 in south asia

  Report on the Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India by Justice Rajindar Sachar. The report which runs around 400 pages offers an authoritative account of the wide economic and social disparities that exist between M...