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Call for submission of entries for fiction issue

Call for submission of short stories for Himal's forthcoming fiction special issue

| May 11, 2016

Solidarity: A petition for the release of Kanak Mani Dixit

Editors and media figures as well as intellectuals and scholars have called for the release of Himal editor and prominent Nepali journalist Kanak Mani Dixit.

| Apr 25, 2016

Fact sheet on Kanak Mani Dixit’s arrest

A fact sheet on the detainment of HImal's founding editor Kanak Mani Dixit by the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA).

| Apr 23, 2016

Hell on Ascension

The story of Cochin’s Robinson Crusoe – found guilty of sodomy and banished to Ascension Island.

| Mar 19, 2015

Turning out

In Kashmir Valley, voter participation at recent Assembly polls was driven by an overriding imperative.

Between the people and the polis

Southasia’s mega-cities and the urban future.

| Nov 25, 2014

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