The novelist-turned-activist discusses corporate collusion, environmental struggles and political resistance in India – from dams and nuclear testing to Enron’s influence on India’s energy sector
During the Kargil War, Barkha Dutt's was a familiar face on the television screen, bringing live action on the Star News channel. But she was not telling us
The parallel political systems of Northeast India
In the militancy-affected Indian Northeast, New Delhi's containment policy of the last four decades has produced a peculiar equilibrium, one
One of the first things that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government embarked on when it came to power was to 'rectify' the various institutional
There a conflict in South Asia, which has outlasted most post-World War II disputes. This long-festering dispute is the one in Kashmir, and it is the primary cause
One American satellite that girdles the globe apparently does more than check out what other countries are hiding in their backyards. It actually, among other things, gives us a night-
Here are some basic facts. Of course, the facts about a town like Rahimatpur can only be basic. They are also historical. Very little of the present that is not
Who Are The Jews of India?
by Nathan Katz, The University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000 Pages: 207. Price: $45, ISBN: 0-520-21323-8
India's smallest and
Following the two articles that Himal published on pharmaceutical patents (February) and primary healthcare (March), we reprint this unusual piece by the novelist John Le Carre in The Nation, the alternative opinion weekly from New York. This is to alert ourselves of the need to be on guard against
The replacement of lost wood-work as part of the restoration of the Ratneswara Temple in Kathmandu using the skills of traditional Nepali craftsmen, in breach of the Eurocentric norms
