Kate Sullivan writes…
The eighty-one year old candidate with his own Facebook group symbolises how India’s parties are trying to come to grips with millions of young voters.
There probably aren’t too many eighty-one year olds who have an iPhone and their own blog. Lal Krishna Advani does. He can also put his name to a number [...]
March 20th, 2009
Bina D’Costa writes:
In the early morning on the 25 February, a mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) broke out in Dhaka. Following some horrific ordeals experienced by many army officers, including senior BDR staff and their families, the mutiny ended 33 hours later.
The dispute, thought to be about the pay and command structure [...]
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