Photographs by Edwin Koo
Throngs of homebound Nepalis during this Dasain are forced to cross the Kosi river by boat and ferries, as the Kosi flood has broken theEast-West
By Dinesh Kumar Mishra
Promised Irrigation
Through Eastern Kosi Main Canal 712,000 hectares
Slashed Down Target (1975) 374,000 hectares
Actual Irrigation 2003-04 141,970 ha (19.94%
In April, Nepal went into an election in which one of the political parties in contest still maintained an army of its own, albeit restricted to cantonments supervised by the
Delhi, Bangalore, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and now Delhi again. Take the names of these cities together and it conjures up images of terror; of innocents unconnected with the larger politics dying
Since 2002, in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Taliban, the United Nations refugee agency's Afghanistan office has been involved in the largest repatriation project in
Kari
by Amruta Patil
HarperCollins, 2008
With such a vibrant graphic tradition, it is little surprise that Indian art and literature has now produced a series of beautiful and smart
The Kosi breach
The Kosi River breached its manmade embankment on 18 August. Nearly four million people were displaced in what must be considered one of the larger humanitarian disasters
In recent weeks there has been tacit international acceptance of the security measures taken by the Colombo government in the Sri Lankan north, which have included the request to international
Humanity seems to have worked itself up into something of a self-esteem problem. In academia, the media, even in popular culture itself, population has become a word to strike
