S Thavaratnam, chairman of the Jaffna District Fishermen's Cooperative Society Unions Federation, played a significant role in unionising fishermen in northern Sri Lanka, starting in the mid-1970s.
Vivekanandan has worked with fishing communities for over a quarter-century. Most of that was spent with the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies, a cooperative organisation for small fishermen,
The historical effects of trans-Indian Ocean involvement in Southasia, while major for the overseas areas concerned, were minor in terms of life in the region itself.
The Oriya writer Jagannath Prasad Das is an extremely versatile figure, known for his poetry, plays and short stories. In 2006, he received the prestigious Saraswati Samman, an annual literary
I was recently forced to overhear a conversation between strangers, two Indian women, who met on the Bhopal-Delhi Shatabdi Express. They quickly zeroed in on each other's
The flood that inundated Sindh beginning in the first week of August left hundreds of villages and scores of towns in 21 out of the 23 districts of the province
On 28 July, a family in Peshawar received a distressing call from relatives in Swat's Madyan resort town. The caller and his family had, as a last-ditch
Irrigation expert (and former Sindh irrigation and power secretary) Idris Rajput spoke to Himal Southasian about the morphology of the recent flooding. The interview was conducted on 19 August, at
Region Poverty inflation?
Come November, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced that it will be changing the way it measures global poverty. Since 1997, its country-wise Human
An annual festival in Tamil Nadu allows transgendered people from near and far to affirm their identity.
It is early spring and, for Tamils, the beginning of the new year,
