It was the winter I stayed at Patlikuhl, in my Tibetan boarding school in rural north India, a small, isolated school tucked in a narrow valley between the hills of
In these times of political flux all over the Himalayan region, it is essential to be sensitive to assertions of identify. Such sensitivity is especially important in Nepal, whose people
Youth, citizenship and empire after 9/11
by Sunaina Maira
Duke University Press, 2009
Maira, a well-regarded scholar of youth culture and of Indian-American youth culture in particular,
There is Old Delhi, the ancient city by the Jamuna; and there is New Delhi, built by Lutyens and the capital of the Raj, just in time to be intercepted
Twenty years of the most infamous literary fatwa.
Every year, all over the world, in the pages of thousands of books, hundreds of thousands of newspaper pages, magazines and journals
The local photographer who captured damning evidence of a fake encounter in Imphal chose not to publish the photographs in the Manipur press. Why?
Thokcham Rabina Devi, a pregnant young
The Delhi High Court's path-breaking ruling on 'Section 377' accepts sexual orientation as a clear criterion for classifying people. There are, however, stakes involved in
The mauzzin calls the faithful to prayer from a minaret that vies for height with the Ghanta Ghar next door and the tower of the Narayanhiti Royal Palace a little
