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OFFICIAL CONSTITUTIONAL NAME:  BHARAT “India” is as much a country as the Equator: Sir Winston Churchill Real name “Hindustan”…too hard for British to pronounce The origins of the word Anglacized “India” Come from Hind Sindhu…Hindhu… Sindh….Hindh… Sindh…Sindhi.. Hindhi …Indus…India.. The monkier “Sindhi” or “Hindi” categorized those living on the banks of the Indus….not those who live on the Ganges Pakistanis live on the banks of the Indus. Indians don’t..they live on the banks of the... Read Full Story

                                                                    Author: Tashi Pemba* IN HIS EDITORIAL S.DASGUPTA IN TIMES OF INDIA DATED 19/04/2008 CASTIGATES THE MANDARINS OF SOUTH BLOCK FOR MISSING THE PROVERBIAL WOODS IN THEIR ANALYSIS OF THE NEPALESE POLITICAL SCENE PRE -THE RECENT ELECTIONS IN NEPAL. Unfortunately the worthies of both south and north block have historically  and are even today missing not only the... Read Full Story

(Reuters photo from Pakistan) Bangladesh, fearing social unrest caused by rising food prices, announced today that (like India) it would ban rice exports, a policy that would remain in place for six months.  Though Bangladesh is not a major rice exporter (it's the 4th largest importer), this is yet one more sign that rising food prices have wider implications.  Bangladesh has already had protests over the price of food.  Protests over food prices have also been reported in countries... Read Full Story

                                                                               Author: Ram Manohar The first recorded official relations with China and Tibet occurred near the middle of the seventh century. By the eighteenth century, Nepalese adventurism in Tibet led to Chinese intervention in favor of Tibet. The resultant Sino-Nepalese Treaty of 1792 provided for tribute- bearing missions from Nepal to China... Read Full Story

 THE THESIS: There was no “partition” Historians in general and many Pakistanis in particular take deep umbrage and dislike the usage of the term “partition” because “partition” implies the division of a whole. Pakistanis prefer Independence. Pakistanis will accept “Separation” but not “partition.” As the maps show, the term “India” was very ephemiral and put in vogue by the British. Before British times, there was no such word. Because there never was a country called “India” there was no... Read Full Story