Himal Mag

Cover

Such a long journey
By: Namit Arora

How and why 145,000 people migrated to a small Caribbean island.

Departure lounge
By: Weena Pun

Hanging out in Kathmandu’s international airport with soon-to-be migrants.

The Gorkhalis of Myitkyina
By: Sushma Joshi

Tracking down a far-off Nepali community.

Like here, like there
By: K P Jayasankar & Anjali Monteiro

Nomadic lives were destroyed as Sindh and Kachchh are separated by a border.

That easy intimacy
By: Raza Rumi

A Pakistani re-discovers Bangladesh.

By steam!
By: Mark Tully

Riding the rails with a beast of old.

The road north
By: Charles Haviland

Journeys in post-war Sri Lanka.

A home along the way
By: Iona Liddell

For a refugee, the journey rarely ends.

Setting out for a place
By: Rakhshanda Jalil

Haj in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pallava pilgrimages
By: William Dalrymple

Finding the soul’s centre in South India.

An agnostic in Kailash
By: Dilip Simeon

Feeling moved by one of the Subcontinent’s most famous pilgrimages.

Among the samanalayo
By: Richard Boyle

Sri Pada has been a source of fascination for centuries’ worth of explorers and pilgrims in Sri Lanka.

Toddlers and all
By: Vivek Menezes

When neighbours disapprove of a travel destination – that’s where to take the family.

Silence in the places of men
By: Dilip D’Souza

Chasing what keeps people quiet.

Trips & journeys
By: Tony Wheeler

So many places to see, so many people to meet.

The silsilah of wheelchair travels
By: Salil Chaturvedi

Olde-world travel
By: Richard Boyle

Maxims and measures from bygone times.

How does a travel writer travel?

Travelling menagerie
By: Aniruddha Sen Gupta

Two humans, four dogs.

The fatigue of the road
By: Marcus Benigno

Demystifying the professional traveller.

Get lost!
By: Joni Sweet

When to use a guidebook – and when to throw it away.

Just stay home
By: Padraig Colman

The apple doesn't travel far
By: Preena Shrestha

Mail

Commentary

Region: The constant movement of multitudes

India: Impugning impunity

India: Name-dropping

Art: ‘From this place I begin’

Southasian Briefs

Round-up of regional news

Voices

Opinions from around the region

Report

Renting wombs
By: Vrinda Marwah

The booming surrogacy industry in India is rife with unanswered ethical, economic and political questions.

Upending ULFA
By: Sanjib Baruah

Surprise negotiations with ULFA aside, the Indian government’s effort to contain and control insurgency in Assam is unlikely to meet the hopes and expectations that have energised the peace process.

Analysis

Emergency by any other name
By: Tisaranee Gunasekara

…in Sri Lanka’s case, is just as undemocratic.

‘Wicked’ Afghan shadow
By: Shamshad Ahmad

India-Pakistan relations can no longer be addressed without reference to Afghanistan.

Opinion

Revisiting Attabad
By: Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib, Humaira Khan, MuzaffarUddin & Babar Khan

A year on in Hunza, how far along the road to normalcy?

Too much information?
By: Vineeta Bal

Infant deaths resulting from a recent clinical trial in India have led to a media outcry. But few have considered how explosive these revelations actually are, or the problematic use and application of the Right to Information Act.

A step further
By: Haroon Habib

Despite setbacks, the will to strengthen bilateral relations remained strong during Manmohan Singh’s Dhaka visit.

Southasiasphere

Portents of the future
By: CK LAL

Mediafile

Tidbits of the region's media
By: Chhetria Patrakar

Tapestry

Into the city
By: Reena Kukreja

Domestic workers tell their stories.

Review

Bookshelf

Bhopal’s children’s children
By: Deepak Unnikrishnan

Such a femininity
By: Satya Rai Nagpaul

The citizenship crisis
By: Nandita Haksar

Through a glass, darkly
By: Trisha Gupta

Taliban corridor
By: Vijay Prashad

Profile

Missing Manmohan
By: Shiv Vishvanathan

A good man tarnished.

Interview

‘An end to violence … through the use of violence’ – Mohan Baidya, UCPN (Maoist)
By: Post Bahadur Basnet

On the way up

Adventures with a Nepali Frog
By: Kanak Mani Dixit

Some things have changed in Nepal for a writer revising a work 15 years later. Other things, the nicer ones, remain the same.

Photo Gallery

Slow goes the caravan
Photographs and text by Dilip Banerjee

Wari walking
Photographs and text by Sandesh Bhandare

Higher, pilgrim
Photographs and text by Ian Lockwood

Getting around
Photographs and text by Sami Siva

Table of Contents

October, 2011

A new lens 18 May 2012
	Satish Sharma describes a new visual language for the streets of Southasia....

Drawing conclusions 17 May 2012
	The row over a cartoon featuring Dalit leader Ambedkar shows a lack of critical...
By Rohini Hensman

The fighting Kachin 15 May 2012
	Burma’s recent reforms have brought no respite for the Kachin people.
By Brennan O’Connor

Clearing Korail 11 May 2012
	Dhaka’s latest slum demolition shows the full scale of the Bangladeshi government’s...
By Saad Hammadi

High Himalayan hype 11 May 2012
	Infatuation with Everest has inspired Everest-sized absurdities.
By Don Messerschmidt

Why separate? 10 May 2012
	A new book justifies Kashmiri secession, but the scholarly appraisal ignores...
By Rakesh Ankit

A cicada at the door 21 May 2012
	Fiction
By Deepa Bhasthi