BBC NEWS | World | South Asia: "Some of South Asia's best and brightest talents have signed up to write regularly for BBC News Online's South Asia page.
Top Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, star of such hits as Dil Chahta Hai (What The Heart Wants), Koi... Mil Gaya (I Found Someone) and Kal Ho Naa Ho (Tomorrow May Never Come), will be writing once a month on a range of subjects from cinema and entertainment to the depiction of women in Bollywood.
Distinguished journalist and commentator Ahmed Rashid, renowned economist Kaushik Basu and leading sports writer Rohit Brijnath will join Preity Zinta in writing for BBC News Online South Asia.
Ahmed Rashid, author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed books, Jihad and Taliban: Islam, Oil and the new Great Game in Central Asia, is a specialist on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He will write on political and security issues in the region.
Kaushik Basu's columns are more likely to have an economic focus.
He is Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University in the United States.
Bookmark bbcnews.com/southasia "
Friday, February 20, 2004
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