Donor agencies regularly charge their host governments and bureaucracies of corruption, but what about the lack of accountability of the agencies themselves? In Dhaka, the donor elite is beginning to be taken on.
Two decades of NGO-led development in Nepal has been accompanied by a steady privatisation of the state's welfare functions and an erosion of community institutions. A retrospective assessment of the impact of NGO activity.
Us Third Worlder South Asians are always looking for a hint, an indication, that the rest of the world takes us seriously. It does not matter if it is about
Contours: Essays on Security and Strategy
By Jaideep Saikia
Sagittarius Print, Guwahati, 2001
Pnce: INR 100/USD 20
Himalayan Drawings
Drawings by Robert Powell
Edited by Michael Oppitz
Volkerkundemuseum der Universitat Zurich, 2001.
When you left even the stones were buried: The defenceless would have no weapons. When the ibex rubs itself against the rocks, who collects its fallen fleece from the slopes?
"One day, Plato defined humankind as the two-legged animal without feathers. The next day, they say, Diogenes dropped by at the Academy with a plucked chicken".
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Nepal's Karnali, Kosi, Mahakali and Narayani rivers were once home to a thriving susu population in the section of the Tarai plains before they enter Indian territory. In
Once the susu was found along the entire stretch of the Ganga system in the plains, but now it is limited to pockets where the flow is large and pollutants sufficiently diluted.
