GARCIA Marquez’s description of the reality of Latin America fits snugly into scenarios here. Or so it seems. How else would you convey the reality of several worldviews that are bizarre but that actually exist? What strange stories are hidden in the harsh realm of workers and the multilayered reality of, say, a public-sector enterprise that shut down its operations in June 2015 and still has on its payroll 12,000 employees?
South Asia Citizens Web
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Workers’ ordeal at Pakistan Steel Mills | Zeenat Hisam
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Haunted by unification: A Bangladeshi view of partition | Afsan Chowdhury
25 August 2017In Bangladesh, 1947 is a distant memory, erased by the bloody 1971 liberation war against Pakistan
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The unfinished Partition of India and Pakistan | Banyan (The Economist)
25 August 2017Seventy years after the two countries split, many Hindus and Muslims are still trying to separate
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‘The wounds have never healed’: living through the terror of partition | Moni Mohsin
25 August 2017The creation of India and Pakistan in 1947 led to horrific sectarian violence and made millions refugees overnight. Seventy years on, five survivors remember
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An Interventionist Foreign Policy Blurs the Line of Demarcation Between Neoconservatives and Neoliberals
by , 25 August 2017President Trump’s address to the nation on August 21, 2017, in which he underscored his government’s stance vis-a-vis South Asia, gave me a sense of déjà vu.
