Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) chief ideologue Baburam Bhattarai, 54, won a seat to the Constituent Assembly from Gorkha, defeating his nearest rival by a massive margin of 41,000
Endlessly pestered with requests to arrange an 'exclusive' interview with his boss on the campaign trail, Pratap came up with several ways to evade the media: stop picking
The Co-wife and Other Stories
by Premchand
translated and introduced by Ruth Vanita
Penguin Modern Classics, 2008
Ruth Vanita's fine translation of selected writings is a wonderful
Ex-revolutionaries begin to fear revolution.
Mere mention of the term,
Makes them shiver in trepidation.
– Pawan Karan in "Range Adak"
The Rolpali Revolutionaries – call them Roarists, in
Caricatures of Congress participants by Abin Shrestha, Ajit Ninan, Gihan de Chickera, Humaun Kabir Manik, Ismail Lahari, Keshav, Rabin Sayami, 'Feica', Prabhakar Wairkar, Rajesh KC, 'Sarab'
Lunatic in My Head
by Anjum Hasan
Zubaan/Penguin, 2007
Anjum Hasan's Shillong is a poetic portrayal of the quintessential outsiderness that characterises most small towns in the
The kingdom of Bhutan has always remained resolutely isolated from political trends in the rest of Southasia. But a process of change has been speeding up, ever since former King
The thought of spending the night at Dhalkebar was not too exciting. On Nepal's east-west highway, 24 kilometres from the Tarai town of Janakpur, Dhalkebar wore a
The Economic Survey released last February predicted that India would grow at 8.7 percent over 2007-8 – somewhat lower than the 9.4 percent by which it grew in
It is by now widely recognised that with the 1980s came a new tide of political movements and struggles around questions of community identity, globally as well as in Southasia.
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
