Southasia Research Unit
In autumn 2009, Himal will activate its plan to start up the Southasia Research Unit (SaRU), which will conduct social-science research on arenas of regional importance as selected by the editors of Himal. For a long time, the editors have felt that the journalistic approach alone is inadequate for so many issues and trends that impact on the population. There is a need to conduct social scientific research over a longer time frame, in order to publish 'tracts' or monographs that will be placed before scholars and policy-makers even as Himal's pages also carry the result of such research.
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The Southasia Trust, GPO Box: 24393, Kathmandu, Nepal. Phone: +977 1 5547279, Fax: +977 1 5552141