You can be a republican and still be nostalgic when a historical institution bites the dust. That is what Nepal's 240-year-old monarchy is about to do.
We are on our way towards the beaches of Vagator from Mapusa, Goa. Along the way, we pass by so closely to Anjuna village's St Michael's
The Gulf Air plane from Bahrain to Qatar is exclusively filled with Nepali workers travelling from Kathmandu. Clad in cheap but new clothes, each wearing a manpower agency cap, what
My only sin was my profession, for which the previous rulers made my life miserable," says Gulzar Alam, the heartthrob of scores of Pashto music lovers. In 2003, the
I remember the shock of seeing an AK-47 hanging from the shoulder of Hayatullah, a tribal journalist from North Waziristan. It looked like an ungainly appendage, which had no
The phone rings in a one-room office in Navyug Mansion, located in the Grant Road area of south Bombay. Forty-nine-year-old Shivaji Sakaram Sawant, who has been
Sara Suleri's hands seem to speak all on their own. They are full of character, delicate and weighed down with myriad stone-studded rings that are difficult to
Land, land everywhere, but not a patch for those who till. Indeed, land ownership in most districts of Nepal's southern Tarai districts remains highly skewed in favour of
For thirty years, modern Nepal was ruled under a royal autocracy. Then, starting in 1990, the people began to experience inefficient, perhaps, but real democracy, through the medium of political
