Bombay's red light district is notorious for being the endpoint of a flesh trade that has taken thousands of young Nepali girls from the poverty of hill villages
Dr. Shanti Ghosh, a respected Indian pediatrician and senior health consultant with the United Nations, was one those who put "girl child" concerns squarely on the South Asian
When the United Nations Decade for Women ended in 1985, there was unspoken relief among many people that the "women in development thing" was finally over and life
The list of endangered species of the Himalaya includes the Royal Bengal Tiger, snow leopard and musk deer, but does not include the mithun, the semi-wild cattle that inhabit
Nepal's Infant Stock Market Gets Cracking
Immediately after Kathmandu's stock exchange was opened in 1984, a letter arrived from a village in West Nepal with an
Sociologist Ujjwal Pradhan takes a look at the give-and-take among the villagers of two hamlets in Central Nepal as they jockey for rights to precious irrigation water.
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The potato is taking root in Nepal like never before, and Kulbir Vyanjankar will be the first to tell you why. This 45-year-old farmer from Sankhamul in Kathmandu
Dharan town and the hill villages of East Nepal were in deep slumber. Then came an ominous rumbling, followed by violent jerking of the ground. Amidst collapsed houses and landslides,
Starting as an official in the Nepal's Ministry of Economic Planning in 1963, Mohan Man Saiju has been intimately connected with Nepali development policy over the years. He
In the chill of the evening by the banks of the Bhagirathi River near Uttar Kashi, the stars are beginning to show as Mahant Shankar Puri raises his voice in
