From The New Yorker, William Dalrymple on the challenges for Pakistan's future — and cue the helicopter warming up its rotors on the President’s back lawn. From Monthly Review, here's a view from the Left. Benazir Bhutto on Musharraf's electoral farce. Fatima Bhutto on her aunt Benazir's false promises: Bhutto's return bodes poorly for Pakistan — and for democracy there. Bhutto the new Chalabi? There's much in common between smooth-talking Benazir Bhutto and the man once favoured by the White House to succeed Saddam Hussein, so the U.S. can't depend on her in the long-term. An interview with Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricket legend and now vociferous opposition politician. Living in a Po-Co World: Expats in post-colonial Dhaka have their hearts in the right places, if their generosity at fund-raising events is anything to go by, although the end result is haphazard, like a game of "Pin the Conscience on the Public Servant" that has been played their tipsy spouses. Indira and the Islamists: India's example shows that a vacation from democracy can be a huge setback for secularism. Allah's ambassadors: Edna Fernandes gains unique access to the ultra-orthodox Deoband madrassa in rural India. A review of An American Witness to India's Partition by Phillips Talbot. An interview with Lal Khan, author of Crisis in the Indian Subcontinent: Partition, can it be undone? The View From Jantar Mantar: A review of India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha and The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future by Martha C. Nussbaum. Thomas Friedman on the dawn of E2K in India.
