Himal Southasian (Page 432)

The State of the Mango Report 1996

Mitu Varma in New Delhi: AAM IS WHAT the meaty, luscious fruit is called in Hindi. The word also means ´common´. But the king among the Subcontinental fruits had his

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1996

Round up of regional news

The Stolen Children of Bangladesh " I want to go home… I want to go home… I want to go home…" The drone goes on like the chant of

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1996

PROMISES TO KEEP IN KATHMANDU

Visitors coming to Nepal and expecting to feel the country´s "pulse" by reading the English papers and magazines will find themselves sadly out of touch. For, unlike

By A.B. Khanal

/ 1 Aug 1996

ONE NATION, TWO DISCOURSES

If you read only Urdu in Pakistan; you are expected to possess a world-view distinct from someone who reads only English. Urdu carries more domestic news and concentrates more

By K.Ahmed

/ 1 Aug 1996

LETTERS OF DISCREDIT

When smart-talking Ram Sharan Mahat finally quit on 31 July, with some opposition prodding, he became Nepal´s first-ever Finance Minister to resign over allegations of "financial

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1996

CENSURING CENSORSHIP

Many years ago, when the boot was on another foot, Aththa (truth or pravda), the Sri Lanka Communist Party´s daily newspaper, railed at the press censorship imposed by the

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1996

BOMBS IN PUNJAB

The mysterious bomb blasts that have been rocking Pakistan´s most populous province of the Punjab over the last few months are cause for great concern. The terrorists have so

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1996

BANGLA PRESS vs BANGLA ARMY

The new government of Sheikh Hasina Wajed has increased the allocation for the military by six percent over last year´s budget. Defence expenditure now stands at more than 20

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1996

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Bollywood, as even its most ardent admirers will admit, definitely has a touch of the bizarre. Exaggerated portrayals of personalities are the norm rather than the exception. But what if

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1996

Speaking in tongues

Hindi newspapers wield overwhelming influence in Indian society, but this power is gravely misused to promote the interests of only one community.

By C Gupta and M Sharma

/ 1 Aug 1996

A South Asian Labour Rights Charter Why Not?

All the major trade unions, federations, labour support organisations from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal who gathered for´ the first time in Kathmandu in end-May agreed on

By Mukul

/ 1 Jul 1996

Neo-Aryan Bid For Power

The root problem of divisiveness in the Subcontinent stems from the arrogant assumption of the contemporary (Aryan) exponents of aggressive Hinduism that they speak for the whole of India. For

By Bill Aitken

/ 1 Jul 1996