Asia Sentinel

What Hindu Nationalists Really Believe

Hindu nationalism has become the dominant political ideology in India today. What does it actually mean?

Dec 5

1

November 2025

BOOK REVIEW: The Wondrous Elixir of the Two Chinese Lovers

By Tim McGirk. Plum Rain Press, Taiwan, soft cover 348 pages, US$17.95

Nov 22

5

1

October 2025

Life in Lint: The Cost of India’s Textile Recycling

Workers trade off their health and welfare for a precarious living

Oct 28

1

Iran and Art in a Cage

A century of cultural rupture and decline

Oct 26

12

2

1

A Week in Chengdu

Our traveling correspondent finds a native animal almost too cute to bear

Oct 25

14

1

1

BOOK REVIEW: Shattered Lands (Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia)

By Sam Dalrymple. William Collins, London, £25 hardback, India: Harper Collins India, New Delhi, hard cover, 528 pp, Rs799, US33.99

Oct 18

7

3

1

BOOK REVIEW: Harvesting the Waves (How Blue Parks Shape Policy, Politics and Peacebuilding in the South China Sea)

By James Borton. Universal Publishers, Irvine, CA, soft cover, 298 pp. US$39.99

Oct 12

BOOK REVIEW: Unbroken (The Power of Resilience)

By Chee Soon Juan. Self-published, Singapore. 224 pages, S$30

Oct 11

6

Malaysia’s International Footy Hopes Dashed in Fraud

It’s all a matter of where your grandma’s from

Oct 9 • John Berthelsen

11

2

September 2025

BOOK REVIEW: Malaysia’s Maritime Jurisdictional Limits (An Appraisal)

By Vivian L. Forbes. Springer Nature Series, Stuttgart, Germany. Soft cover, pp. 419 with illustrations. US$149

Sep 20

BOOK REVIEW: King of Kings (The Iranian Revolution, A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation)

By Scott Anderson. Random House, Canada. Hard cover, 512 pp. US$26.74

Sep 7 • Philip Bowring

1

Where Do You Get Your Information?*

Certainly not the New York Public Library

Sep 5 • Our Correspondent