At the sacred site of Siddhartha Gautam's birth, archaeologists run amok, architects are needlessly ostentatious and sects outspend each other. The meaning of the dharma is greatly diluted.
A Report on the Fourth International Conference on Buddhist Women.
While the hill council elections in Ladakh made the headlines, the summer of 1995 also saw in Leh the Fourth
In the side street of Kabul, the angry crowd had been gathering since nightfall. Daggers drawn, they advanced menacingly up to the gates of the mission. Taking cover of darkness,
Warrior Gentlemen: "Gurkhas" in the Western Imagination
Warrior Gentlemen is not merely an addition to the voluminous literature on the Gurkhas of Nepal (see 'The Gurkha Guide&
Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India's Brothels
Human Rights Watch/Asia 1995
This book is about tragedy, major tragedy. Unfortunately, Rape jar Profit
An annual conference which has its downside, but the ups seem to more than make up for it.
Does Conferencing on South Asia provide "intellectual fun?" It does,
If you want to see Calcutta as it was in the 1950s, visit Rangoon. With its crumbling Victorian buildings and leafy boulevards, Rangoon feels like a backwater, and in many
Doon School Wants a Taste of SAARC
India's elite send their children to the Doon School, at the idyllic foothills of Garhwal, so that they are groomed to
There are many wild areas of Nepal that urgently require protection. Milke Danda in the eastern hills is one such place, a place of rare beauty, repository of the rhododendron.
We spent the evenings before the People´s Movement in that hotel, killing time. It wasn´t much of a hotel, despite its name: Pashupati Hotel. Even the signboard that
