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Information on Kanak Mani Dixit’s arrest

(On 2 May 2016, the Supreme Court of Nepal ordered the release of Kanak Mani Dixit, journalist, activist and Himal Southasian's founding editor, responding to a habeas corpus

By The Editors

/ 25 Apr 2016

Information on Kanak Mani Dixit’s arrest

Fact sheet on Kanak Mani Dixit’s arrest

A fact sheet on the detainment of HImal's founding editor Kanak Mani Dixit by the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA).

By The Editors

/ 23 Apr 2016

Fact sheet on Kanak Mani Dixit’s arrest

The Nepal earthquake, one year later

The 25 April Earthquake that shook the central hills of Nepal in 2015 will be forever be embedded in the memory of those who lived through it.

By The Editors

/ 22 Apr 2016

The Nepal earthquake, one year later

Founding editor Dixit in custody of CIAA

Himal Southasian's founding editor and the Chairman of The Southasia Trust Kanak Mani Dixit has been taken in for questioning by the authorities of the CIAA (Commission for

By The Editors

/ 22 Apr 2016

Dalit intellectualising and the Other Backward Classes

Even as the Indian middle-class anger against reservations for Other Backward Classes subsides, one voice remains consistent.

By Shivam Vij

/ 21 Apr 2016

Dalit intellectualising and the Other Backward Classes

Policy paralysis

The many complexities of polio vaccination in Pakistan.

By Sarah Eleazar

/ 20 Apr 2016

Policy paralysis

Elephants in Manhattan

India-administered Kashmir is haunted by violence and bound by the tension of memory.

By Feroz Rather

/ 20 Apr 2016

Elephants in Manhattan

Beast of Empire

Scholar Jinn Enters the Ink Doors and other poems

By Shadab Zeest Hashmi

/ 18 Apr 2016

Beast of Empire

Trials and tribulations

Ethics of clinical trials and vaccine research in India.

By Sandhya Srinivasan

/ 17 Apr 2016

Trials and tribulations

Between mortality and moksh

An exhibition on medicine and healing highlights Indian attitudes towards health.

By Phalguni Desai

/ 15 Apr 2016

Between mortality and moksh

Doctor’s appointment

Since 2012, Dr Govinda KC has launched seven separate rounds of hunger strikes to demand a wide range of reforms in medical education within Nepal.

By Shubhanga Pandey

/ 12 Apr 2016

Doctor’s appointment

The silent superbug

Totally drug resistant TB is the lethal superbug that could haunt India’s future.

By Sona Geworgjan and Cristina Valencia

/ 11 Apr 2016

The silent superbug