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.
King Birendra of Nepal, who just turned 55, should be more actively involved in the development concerns of his long-suffering subjects. His constitutional position would allow such a role.
Every piece of ancient religious statuary from Kathmandu Valley that sits today in the West is stolen property. The gods must be returned from their exile, and until such time, those who presently hold them are merely custodians.
The new Secretary General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) spoke to Himal editor Kanak Mani Dixit soon after assuming office.
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I.A. Rehman is journalist and chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan as well as of the Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy. He was
Kathmandu is closer to Beijing than to Lhasa.
Till as late as the first decade of this century, the government in Kathmandu paid tribute to the Chinese court. Once every
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It does not seem to shame nor needlessly bother Kathmandu's ruling classes that highland peasants by the hundreds of thousands leave the country every year to work the most wretched jobs in the plains of India.
Harish Kapadia, as his name suggests, is a kapada merchant. Sitting crosslegged in his shop, M/s Ramdas Bhagwandas, from noon till about ten at night, he sells cloth. Stacks
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Since the satellites began bearing down on the Subcontinent, television has displaced many household activities, 'notably sleeping', says the author
Bearing loads on the back the way his ancestors did fifteen thousand years ago, the Bearing loads on the back the way his ancestors did fifteen thousand years ago, the Nepali porter carries an evolutionary legacy as well as a modern-day burden. Treating his condition would also cure the socio-econom
A meeting of mountain representatives from far corners of the globe ended a hollow exercise. Was this the way to lobby for the world's highlands?
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Bhutan today teeters on the edge of geopolitical ruin. It could tip over, or it could recover in time. It is, basically, up to King Jigme Singye Wangchuk.
In 1990,
