A new issue of Himal Southasian is out. A new issue of The South Asianist is out. From Outlook India, a special issue on the world's 25 smartest Indians. Gayatri Parameswaran on how a traditional practice of courtship draws controversy in modern Bhutan. From spot-fixing to big-hitting showmanship: How India has transformed cricket into a whole new ball game. Has Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) infiltrated US think tanks? Justin T. Pfeifer reviews Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal. Spoils of victory: Sinhala extremism finds new targets in Sri Lanka. Priyanka Borpujari interviews Noam Chomsky: “What is striking in India is the indifference of the privileged”. If you have casual sex, you are legally married: The Madras High Court ruling has far-reaching consequences for young couples living on a tumultuous sexual landscape. Martin W. Lewis on Bhutan’s paradoxical development. Is India the next global bad boy? Ed Gerwin wonders. David Gilmour reviews An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. Happy and you know it? Debt and discontent are growing in Bhutan. This is the story of the Joint Entrance Examination, the yearly attempt to pick out the ten thousand most intelligent students in a country of 1.2 billion people. Reverse Partition: Jared Dmello on the plausibility of reunification of the Indian subcontinent.
