Kanak Mani Dixit is a journalist, writer, translator, and civil rights and democracy activist. He is the chair of the Southasia Institute for History and Philosophy and the founder of Himal Southasian.
Come with me early this upcoming winter for a trip through backwater history, across borders and ecological zones, across fields, rivers, forests, gorges – and to confront the invasion of modern
19 August: Independence Day of Afghanistan
14, 15 August: Independence days of Pakistan and India, respectively
4 February: Independence Day of Sri Lanka
26 March: Independence Day of Bangladesh
Either Nepali politics is incredibly unscrupulous or it is a trailblazer, with some of the more sensitively democratic politicians chaperoning a post-conflict society. Take the case of the elections
I was recently asked by a friend to write a story, 'an imaginative, creative one'. There have been those who have remonstrated at the ease with which I
If instability, anarchy, mayhem and insecurity be the stuff of life, then we should be happy to be living in the Subcontinent, in many regards the most violent part of
Having arrived at Manas Lake, under the great snow dome of the mountain Kailash, she took deep draughts from the clear, sweet water. She was tired by the chase given
Even though PIA Flight 269 was bound from Kathmandu to Karachi, I was excited to visit the Sindhi Hyderabad. For too long, the Deccan city and capital of Andhra, with
The efficacy or life of a new idea depends upon whether it is able to stir up controversy. After all, anything novel or transformative is bound to disturb some political
Arriving recently at Mohandas K Gandhi's samadhi in Rajghat, we asked the caretakers at the office for the visitor's book from the previous day, to see
Dear Maoist whole-timers:
Your leaders taught you to use violence for political change, but that lesson has proven irrelevant in Nepal's open society, which your party entered
It is okay if some people find Mount Kailash just a very interesting mountain, because it is certainly that. But to many, it is much more. This massif with a
The sputtering row over the 'Indian' priests of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu has its origins in the xenophobia that evolved as part of the hill-centric Nepali nationalist
