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India's future lies firmly with coalitions By Paranjoy Guha Thakurta NEW DELHI - Should India move towards a two-party system, that is, will the fragmented, multiparty polity of the world's second-most populous nation soon resemble that of the United States or Britain? Most analysts...

Afghan refugees sing Hekmatyar's tune By Omid Marzban Two years after the Pakistani government banned it from publication, Shahaadat Daily newspaper, funded by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (Islamic Party of Afghanistan), is again available on the streets of...

Missions impossible: NATO's Afghan dilemma By Philip Smucker KABUL - Beaten and ridiculed by the Taliban for teaching in a clandestine girl's school, Shukriya Barakzai welcomed the US invasion in 2001 with an open heart and hopes for the future. Now, she wants to know just what the North...

China, India vie for outsourcing market By Daniel Allen BEIJING - Asian heavyweights China and India continue to battle it out for major slices of the increasingly lucrative outsourcing pie. While China has long been considered a hub for manufacturing and research and development (R&D)...

India's middle class takes wing By Indrajit Basu KOLKATA - For all those global marketers who have missed the potential of India's billion-plus people and their growing buying power, here's a nudge from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI). A new report released in May by the economics...