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.
The name of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, today identifies the richest Southasian (male) to the world. Lakshmi Mittal, of Mittal Steel, is an Indian based in the United
Karwendelhaus is a lodge in the mountains north of Innsbruck in Austria, and as the sun settled down in the alpine valley to the west, I scribbled the concept of
Nepal's Maoist rebels are headed towards becoming a part of the political mainstream, but they're not there yet. It might just happen if they show some respect for the power of peaceful change.
Hum dekhenge …
Jab takth giraye jayenge
Sab taaj uchale jayenge*
Well, the virtuous people of Nepal saw to it that the crown was dashed. Very late in the modern era,
It has not rained in Nepal for five months and the ground this spring is parched, the haze thicker for the dryness all around. Electricity production is so low that
The self-realisation of Southasia as a single, cohesive space inhabited by multiple peoples took a beating with the partition of the Subcontinent in 1947. 'Nation state-ism'
Just as Southasia at large has failed to utilise the democratising power of radio, public television also seems a distant dream. First, this is because the government in each country
Will peace in our times be achieved because methane from Iran is allowed to enter India via Pakistan? Is it as simple as that? It is beginning to look as if it is.
The Greater One Horned Rhinoceros (rhinoceros unicornis) inhabited the length of north Southasia from east to west, from the Indus plains right across the Ganga-Jamuna doab, along the Ganga
The scizophrenia is certain bureaucratic echelons of the Government of India and its associated academia must be palpable. The entire line of the Himalayan frontier has been ultra-sensitive terrain
Serious' magazines have a high mortality rate everywhere in the world, and so it is with some self-satisfaction that Himal Southasian can claim to have achieved more than
