Why not Palestine?
Why hold a conference for Palestine in New Delhi, asks Aditi Bhaduri.
The Editors | Nov 24, 2010
News and Views (Central)
Himal's take on cross-border news from central Southasia for the week of 5 March
The Editors | Oct 25, 2010
A native place
Between Gandhi’s self-sufficient, harmonious idyll and Ambedkar’s den or ignorance and narrow-mindedness lies the village of reality.
Hartosh Singh Bal | Oct 01, 2010
Harvest to harvest in West Champaran
As times change in rural Bihar, so does the social texture of the village.
Abhay Mohan Jha | Oct 01, 2010
Back to the village
Life is so much better in the village; what are we doing sitting around here?
Kedar Sharma | Oct 01, 2010
Neoliberal deaths
In India over the past decade, farmer suicides are linked to an agrarian crisis brought about by market reforms gone wrong.
The Editors | Oct 01, 2010
Industrial farming versus the peasantry
India’s government is going the ‘agritech’ route while low-input organic farming is better suited to smallholder farming households.
Aruna Roy & Nachiket Udupa | Oct 01, 2010
The danger of Grameenism
Far from being a panacea for fighting rural poverty, microcredit can impose additional burdens on the rural poor.
Patrick Bond | Oct 01, 2010
Contradictions of capitalism
Even as Sri Lanka’s smallholder agriculture dies a slow death, schemes to save the rural economy are only coming from urban intellectuals.
Sunil Bastian | Oct 01, 2010
Long wait for local government
With politics at a standstill in Kathmandu, governance should be shifting to the local levels. In fact, the national is holding the local hostage.
Aditya Adhikari | Oct 01, 2010
From the communes of Jhok
In rural Sindh, the more things change, the more they remain the same.
Urooj Zia | Oct 01, 2010
Two years on
Near the two-year anniversary of Mohammed Nasheed’s election in the Maldives, democracy in the atolls continues to experience growing pains, made more difficult by an increasingly bipolar polity.
Inaya A Shareef | Oct 01, 2010
Honour as strategy
The vehemence of the caste councils of North India against same-clan marriages have to do with the control of high-value real estate land and inheritance rights.
Patralekha Chatterjee | Oct 01, 2010
Bihar face-off
Will the state’s elections offer a new template for the state – or old wine in a new bottle?
Rakesh Ankit | Oct 01, 2010
The generals’ election
In the run-up to Burma’s fraught polls, some of the junta’s leading cheerleaders are Western governments who are bending over backwards to justify their stance.
Maung Zarni | Oct 01, 2010
Targeted killings by drone
In the debate over the use of ‘drone’ technology in Pakistan, many are claiming to speak for the communities on the ground. But what about the impact that this new mode of warfare is having …
Kamran Arif | Oct 01, 2010
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