By Chaitanya Kalbag The Philippines is poised to write a new and dangerous chapter in the global debt crisis, bankers and economic analysts warned on Monday. Over the past week, a combative Congress has set in motion plans likely to pit the heavily indebted nation against its foreign creditors and rupture economic recovery. The analysts…
India, a land where personality cults spring up overnight, is struggling to find a pedestal on which to put its assassinated leader Indira Gandhi. In the year since her murder last Oct. 31, the woman once portrayed by a leading painter as a Goddess has become mainly a face looking out from old election posters. …
The troops and the refugees are two knots in a tangle Indira Gandhi’s son and successor, Rajiv Gandhi, must unravel before peace returns to Punjab state. TWO streets from the Sikhs’ holiest shrine, the Golden Temple, a soldier in olive green uniform stands atop a t a tall building, his binoculars trained on the clusters…