From Portal, a special issue on Health and Borders Across Time and Cultures: China, India and the Indian Ocean Region. From Outlook India, Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen on putting growth in its place: It has to be but a means to development, not an end in itself. From China Left Review, a special issue on historical legacies, global financial crisis, and China’s working class movement. "Burma Rebooted" is a three-part series that looks at the startling reversal of Burma's repression and isolation. Golden jubilee: On the 50th anniversary of India’s annexation of Goa, a few existential anxieties still preoccupy the locals. The island nation has a split personality: Iftikhar Gilani on how Sri Lanka’s refusal to address the Tamil concern is bad politics. Fugitives from honor killings: Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann go inside a Pakistani shelter that protects women who ran away from home to escape being murdered by their families. A review of The Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India by Ashwini Deshpande. Gavin McInnes on 10 unbelievable things the Chinese believe. Tailspin: Praveen Donthi on Praful Patel and the fall of Air India. Martin W. Lewis on dams and the ignored ethnic conflict of northern Burma. Why China fails at football: The telling reasons why, at least in football, China is unlikely to rule the world in the near future. The price of oranges: Journalist Jason Burke reflects on his encounters with Benazir Bhutto, and on the interconnected nature of food and politics in Pakistan. The kiss that rocked Bhutan: Have Bhutan's royal newlyweds just started a new kissing trend? A review of The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss. Was Emperor Wang Mang China’s first socialist? The grooming of Rahul Gandhi: Is the untested scion of the Gandhi dynasty ready to rule the world’s largest democracy?
