Traditionally, the caste system has functioned differently in the Nepali Tarai.
The history of the non-government organisation (NGO), as a non-state institutional initiative, might logically go back to the origin of government itself. All the same, its role as
The ruins of one of Asia’s great centres of learning still inspire travellers.
It's about me, about my life – it's about all or nothing. Rinchen Chewang, the royal astrologer of Bhutan, has just inquired as to my name and
When the causes are no more there, fanaticism will cease.
Taking on the postcolonial postmodernists and reinstating the Enlightenment
The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes
by David Gellner
OUP, New Delhi, 2001
INR 645, pp 397
While the depth of faith in Buddhism and the Dalai Lama has not changed after five decades of occupation, the adaptation and reinvention of religious expression have become key to
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom. This egoless state is the attainment of Buddhahood.
Where else would one expect
It used to be said that Sri Lanka's two major religions were Buddhism and Cricket. The successes registered by Sri Lanka in international cricket, particularly the winning of
