Stories about South Asia from October, 2007
Bangladesh: Corruption and General
E-Bangladesh on what seems to be a serious corruption charge against General Moeen U Ahmed, and the General's denial.
India: On Palampur and neglect
myHimachal on the lovely city of Palampur, neglected by the Tourism department in the state.
Sri Lanka: The Government and Human Rights
Groundviews on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights's visit to Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka: Military History
Cerno recommends a book on Sri Lankan military history during the Portuguese era.
Pakistan: Hitchhiking around the world
Metroblogging Islamabad chats with a French traveler hitchhiking around the world.
Bangladesh: National ID
Addafication on the National ID scheme in Bangladesh, which could out to be rather heavy on the pocket.
Pakistan: In the wake of the attacks
On her return from an eight year self imposed exile, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was welcomed to Karachi with a procession of thousands of her supporters, and two successful suicide bombers. The attack resulted in 136 dead, hundreds more injured and a public that was left in utter shock. The public have their own opinions about who is ultimately responsible.
India: Inter-faith Marriages
Sunny Days responds to a comment that appears to oppose inter-faith marriages.
India: Women and Spirituality
The Mountaintop on spiritual literature and the indifference or denial of women's sexuality.
Sri Lanka: What the blogs are saying
London, Lanka and Drums crawls through the Sri Lankan blogosphere to find us some wonderful posts.
Sri Lanka: On Virginity
Cynically Yours on virginity, comments on a previous post and the notion of technical virginity.
Nepal: Traffic and Anarchy
Wagle Street Journal on the anarchy that is the traffic in Kathmandu.
Bangladesh: Art, Brick Lane, female writers and Bangla E-Books
Enough with politics that usually dominate the posts in the Bangladeshi blogosphere. Let's start this week's round-up with some arts, movies and literature related pieces. Sid of Serious Golmal writes...
India: The nuclear deal and the PM
Vantage Point writes a tongue-in-cheek post on the issue of the Indo-US nuclear deal.
Bangladesh: Questions for the Army Chief
Bangladesh Army Chief, General Moeen Ahmed, is visiting the US and Voice of Bangladeshi Bloggers poses a set of questions.
Pakistan: Bomb Blasts in Karachi
Metroblogging Lahore and Metroblogging Karachi on the bomb blasts in Karachi attacking Benazir Bhutto.
Pakistan: Return of Benazir
Metroblogging Karachi has an open thread discussing the return of Benazir Bhutto to Pakistan.
India: Women in Films
Ultra Violet on a recent Bollywood film that relies on stereotypes of women and notions of sexual purity.
Sri Lanka: Environment and Blog Action Day
Hissyfits on trees, or the growing lack of them in Sri Lanka, and Words Of Wisdom on recycling on Blog Action Day.
Nepal: Non Resident Nepali
UWB! on double standards at play as no election is held for the Non Resident Nepali movement.
Bangladesh: No Exhibition
Unheard Voices on a rather murky matter of an exhibition of Bangladeshi artifacts that were to be shown in Paris.
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