Graveyard of Indian idealism Tibet. The Lost Frontier by Claude Arpi

Although the absorption of Tibet into China since 1950 has been copiously discussed from different angles, there is a dearth of understanding about the regional politics surrounding the “roof of the world”. Since time immemorial,
 
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The strongmen’s benefactors The Temptations of Tyranny in Central Asia

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, much of Central Asia has been ruled by a set of brutal feudal patriarchs reminiscent of the despotic Khans of Medieval times. These resilient authoritarians run countries like personal fiefdoms, inscribing “first family” control over the media, political parties and businesses, and unleashing repressive security apparatuses on impoverished people.
 
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The strongmen’s benefactors The Temptations of Tyranny in Central Asia by David Lewis

Pico Iyer’s new book The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, which hits bookstores in March this year is a gorgeously wrought dissection of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s peripatetic life, philosophy and status as an iconic figure throughout the world.
 
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The strongmen’s benefactors The Temptations of Tyranny in Central Asia by David Lewis

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, much of Central Asia has been ruled by a set of brutal feudal patriarchs reminiscent of the despotic Khans of Medieval times...
 
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Indian Secularism : A Social and Intellectual History, 1890-1950 By Shabnum Tejani

Many of the central issues in modern Indian politics have long been understood in terms of an opposition between ideologies of secularism and communalism. Observers have argued that recent Hindu nationalism is the symptom of a crisis of Indian secularism and have blamed this on a resurgence of religion or communalism...
 
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India Arriving: How This Economic Powerhouse is Redefining Global Business - By Rafiq Dossani

Once the jewel in the crown of the formidable British Empire, India has been surrounded by myth for years..
 
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Parag Khanna's "The Second World"

Foreign policy expert Parag Khanna made one of the biggest possible splashes in advance of his publication date: a cover essay in the New York Times Magazine in Jan. 2008. His essay, "Who Shrank the Superpower" was adapted from his new book, "The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order."..
 
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Parag Khanna's "The Second World"

Foreign policy expert Parag Khanna made one of the biggest possible splashes in advance of his publication date: a cover essay in the New York Times Magazine in Jan. 2008. His essay, "Who Shrank the Superpower" was adapted from his new book, "The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order."..
 
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. ..
 
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