The 28 August election of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) leader Baburam Bhattarai as the country's new prime minister led to a flicker of hope among a
'Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption … is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.'
– Guy Debord, French philosopher, in The Society
California-based Jeff Greenwald is the author of six travel books, several of which were written in Southasia. His best-known titles include Shopping for Buddhas, The Size of the
In July 1816, former British Navy officer John Whitworth Bennett arrived in Ceylon with the prospect of employment in the Civil Service. His career in the colony was no great
Land of the Unconquerable: The lives of contemporary
Afghan women
edited by Jennifer Heath
& Ashraf Zahedi
University of California Press, 2011
Among the more common forms of violence inflicted
