Here’s you linkage (…in case you’re still trying to avoid grading…)
- Manan Ahmed of Chapati Mystery fame has an op-ed in the New York Times on Pakistan’s Tyrannical Majority.
- Praveen Swami asks whether it really matters to India who is the Prime Minister of Pakistan?
- Fahad Deshmukh did a wonderful little piece on Pakistan’s election symbols. (Vote Bucket!)
- Shaik Ubaid argues that Bangladesh is heading for a religious civil war ever since a war crimes trial was politicized.
- Olga Khazan examines the collective action problem and charging a quarter per garment to improve worker safety in Bangladesh. (Assuming of course that the extra cost is actually spent on safety and not profits for the local manufacturer or bribes to the new building inspector…)
- Pankaj Mishra reminds Niall Ferguson and his ilk that the sun is at last setting on Britain’s Imperial Myth.
- The Indian Navy has commissioned its first squadron of MiG-29K naval fighters. (Now if that aircraft carrier would just be delivered…)
- John Knefel asserts that everything you’ve been told about radicalization is wrong.
- Note to self: don’t pressure cook while brown. (Add it to the list…)
- Finally, a strategic analysis of Musharraf’s election strategy as re-enacted by two cats…
Vikash is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. His main areas of academic interest are (post-) globalization, economic development, and economic freedom, with a regional focus on South Asia
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