you have to separate the criminal investigation by the police from the investigation by the examining judge in The Hague. So the judge decided to finish the investigation but the police investigation will be continued and that means that Mr. Sison is still a suspect."

The Dutch court, on May 20, 2008, heard Sison's appeal against the Dutch Public Prosecutors Office's request to extend its investigation until December, since the investigators arrived in the Philippines in February and interviewed witnesses. At the trial, however, the new evidence showed that there were indeed attempts to kill him, in 1999 and 2000, while Kintanar's wife, Joy, directly accused Edwin Garcia in the murder of her husband. The Dutch court scheduled the promulgation on the verdict on June 10, 2008.

The Dutch DistrictProject, an ambitious academic research study that aims to discover and document whatever still remains of the pre-colonial archaeology of the Salsette region. Salsette refers to the larger island immediately north of the original seven islands of Bombay, extending from present-day Bandra, Kurla and Chembur to Thane in the north.

A Jain temple fragment, around 800 years old, lies discarded at the base of a tree behind a temple in Thane. Photo: Aarefa Johari

“History tends to focus on kings and dynasties, but our objective is to understand the cultural heritage of the local people of Salsette before the arrival of the Portuguese colonisers [in 1534],” said Suraj Pandit, the director of the project and the Head of Department of Archaeology and Ancient Indian Culture at Mumbai’s Sathaye College. “This