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India blocks more than 800 sites in web porn crackdown

Article Jason Burke - 4 Aug 2015

Sudden blanket ban on websites considered a ‘social nuisance’ is met with anger online and triggers debate on censorship and freedom.

Nepal: Buried alive by poverty

Article Jason Burke - 29 Apr 2015

Prime minister Sushil Koirala has said earthquake fatalities could more than double to 10 000, another blow to one of Asia's poorest countries.

More terror attacks inevitable in volatile region

Article Jason Burke - 12 Jun 2014

News analysis: US interest in the Afghanistan region is now waning, but various extremist factions will remain.

Outmoded: The Gandhi dwindling

Article Jason Burke - 15 May 2014

Election surveys show the supremacy of India's greatest political dynasty is at an end.

Britain and India talk business

Article Jason Burke - 30 Oct 2012

Ten years after massacre, influential Indian politician meets with British high commissioner

Deep economic reform is needed

Article Jason Burke - 27 Sep 2012

India's rapid progress may be halted if high public expenditure is not brought into check, writes Jason Burke.

Will ‘Midnight’s Children’ see the light of day in India?

Article Jason Burke - 10 Sep 2012

A new film adaptation of 'Midnight's Children', Salman Rushdie's novel about India after independence, might not be shown in his native land.

India: The dark reality

Article Jason Burke - 5 Aug 2012

The path to prosperity in India is not as straight and smooth as many would like to believe.

Toulouse murders a wake-up call

Article Jason Burke - 22 Mar 2012

French security has been sanguine about the Muslim fundamentalist threat but last week's shooting may change things.

No hard evidence that al-Qaeda is funding militant Islamist group

Article Jason Burke - 3 Feb 2012

In the fast-changing world of violent Sunni Muslim activism, it is reassuring to find that some things remain the same.

Satanic versus free speech

Article Jason Burke - 27 Jan 2012

Salman Rushdie has damned politicians for giving in to the "false" leaders of India's Muslims after he was threatened with violence.

Pakistan on the edge

Article Jason Burke - 20 Jan 2012

The increasingly strained relations between the army and civilian leadership could lead to a coup.

Oprah draws stares on her first visit to India

Article Jason Burke - 18 Jan 2012

Oprah Winfrey has managed to stop traffic and draw a crowd of hundreds when she visited a slum in Mumbai during her week-long visit to India.

Aung San Suu Kyi ‘could lead Burma one day’

Article Jason Burke - 6 Jan 2012

The personal political adviser of Burma's President Thein Sein says Aung San Suu Kyi's democratic party 'can be the ruling party one day'.

‘I am just here for the violence’

Article Jason Burke - 6 Jan 2012

Indian spectators are increasingly drawn to the guts, gore and glory of full-contact fighting.

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