Ben Campbell is an anthropologist with the University of Durham and a longtime visitor to Nepal. In 2007, he spent time talking with and filming villagers living in the harsh
As Burma's first election in twenty years approached, the streets of Rangoon and other cities were awash with images of a golden lion. This was the insignia of
Immediately upon being freed from house arrest, Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, vowed to continue to fight for human rights and democracy. On 14 November,
INDIA
To the pole!
India launched its first-ever scientific research mission to the South Pole in November. A team of eight scientists from the Goa-based National Centre for
After two decades of refusing to honour the results of the last elections, held back in 1990, the recent electoral exercise in Burma gave plenty of lead-up time for
It is a striking phenomenon, but also a fairly well-engrained one. When they migrate overseas, many first-generation Southasians become more overtly nationalistic than their homebound friends and families,
Words do not always liberate
Sometimes they also imprison
I am in search of such a line
That will set me free
From the web of suffocating sentences.
– Punjabi poet
The human mind craves travel, be it through geographical terrain or through time. Take a train, trek or bicycle, and you suddenly find yourself in different surroundings. This translocation fulfils
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre estimates conservatively that at least 650,000 people in India are currently considered internally displaced persons (IDPs), as a result of armed conflict, ethnic or
Like most Tibetans born and brought up in exile, I grew up, in India, with a certain idea of my homeland, one that was informed by two extreme but inseparable
