It does not seem to shame nor needlessly bother Kathmandu's ruling classes that highland peasants by the hundreds of thousands leave the country every year to work the most wretched jobs in the plains of India.
No ISP is an island
Sri Lanka's online presence has increased exponentially over the last couple of years, with more and more service providers joining in. The market
By mixing with their host cultures, the Non-Resident South Asians of Southeast Asia would be protecting their own long-term interests, as well as helping bring forth a new
The new Indo-Nepal trade treaty signed on 4 December 1996 will allow, for the first time, goods manufactured in Nepal access to the Indian market free of custom duties.
16,000 and Counting…
A fact sheet on the status of victims of the Bhopal Gas Disaster of December 1996 reminds one of the continuing horror of that singular event.
Kathmandu Valley´s booming economy has attracted plains labour by the tens of thousand.
Kathmandu residents do not need reminding that there is an open border between India and Nepal.
In Nepal, the problem with numbers is not unique to counting emigrants. Newspaper columnists, activists and researchers routinely manipulate or exaggerate figures in order to demonstrate the supposed seriousness of
You would not know it seeing lone Nepalis at work on the streets all over India, but there are a number of groups intent upon organising them and providing them
"The fact that Nepalis are by nature straightforward has been proved false."
On the night of 13 January 1996, 48-year-old executive Satya Prakash Sharma, his 42-
Democratic decay in most countries in South Asia has suddenly made it fashionable once more to say some pretty (politically) incorrect things in public. Things like: maybe things were better
