Here’s what we DO:

1. We look at stories and events out of South Asia. Our playing field: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Tibet, The Maldives, Bangladesh and Burma (we like it better than Myanmar).

2. We post daily and we post as often as we can.

3. We post stuff that we find rivetting. We’re guided solely by our personal tastes.

4. We believe in ethical blogging: all stories link to the original source. All tips and suggestions are gratefully acknowledged.

5. We welcome comments, ideas, story suggestions and criticism (though we prefer praise) and will look for your mail at: asianwindowteam [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Now, here’s what we DON’T do: We don’t (usually) post original content. We’re a filter blog.

This is who we are:

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Shekhar Bhatia has launched and edited more newspapers than he cares to remember. His last assignment was with the Hindustan Times as its editor.
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Namita Bhandare quit full-time journalism to be a full-time mom. Her first book (co-authored with Vir Sanghvi) is a biography, A life: Madhavrao Scindia, published by Penguin and released in March 2009. Namita writes a fortnightly column on social trends for Mint (which, of course, she uploads on the site) and spends way too much time on the Net.

8 Responses to “About”


  1. 1 subroto

    Indian media space is making a serious effort at dumbing down, and now factual errors.

    in this hilarious, sensational, dumb, puerile content space Asian Window is a beacon. It serves us with the best from around the world, well researched, credible, high quality insightful stuff.

    thank you sirs

  2. 2 subroto

    Sir it might be interesting for your readers to find China along with Pakistan, SL in your coverage. Also a little more from BD, Nepal; your Pakistan coverage is outstanding maybe a little attention to the rest would take AW to a higher league

  3. 3 Aruna Dhir

    Dear Namita and Mr. Bhatia,

    What a fantastic site with a very focussed approach.

    Your filter blog filters through just the right kind of stuff.

    A very interesting endeavour.

    Cheers,

    Aruna Dhir

  4. 4 asianwindow

    Thank you, Aruna.

  5. 5 Archana

    Yours is a very interesting blog full of rich informations and thought provoking ideas. I enjoy reading it. But I don’t see many people commenting on a blog like this, which ideally should have got many more comments than it does. Perhaps one reason is that you have too few tags for each post. These posts can have many more tags. Please see if this can be done.

  6. 6 asianwindow

    Thank you for this. Will do it for all future posts.

  7. 7 john dayal

    congratulations
    john dayal
    new delhi

  8. 8 asianwindow

    Thanks John. Great to see you here. — Namita

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