When I arrived in Bhopal soon after the disaster, I was rather unprepared. Rushing to the city from the small town four hours away where I worked in an NGO,
The increasing intimacy between Kathmandu and Beijing highlights Nepal’s hope to ease its longstanding dependency on India – but it is also squeezing the country’s already vulnerable Tibetan community.
The world's worst industrial disaster, in Bhopal in 1984, left an estimated 8000 dead within a few days of the gas leak. Over subsequent years, about 25,000
Gadhimai Mela in Nepal will take place on 24 November, whether activists, sympathisers and critics cry themselves hoarse or not. Setting aside the visual repulsion, the macabre excess and the
In early December 1984, a poisoned cloud spewing from a factory lacking in safety mechanisms killed, maimed and choked tens of thousands. Twenty-five years on, the legacy of that
A Spring Long Past
Dilip Simeon
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic – Albert Camus
India's Maoist movement (named Naxalism, after thana Naxalbari in Darjeeling district)
SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAMME
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
The South Asian Studies Programme (SASP) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore seeks two
• Is there such a thing as a South Asian civilisational community?
There is no such thing as a South Asian ´community´, only South Asian ´communities´. Even the term ´South Asian´
In the two years since the sidelining of Nepal's monarchy in April 2006, and the restoration of a democracy that promised a more inclusive polity, the country has
