Illustrations by Bilash Rai
Afghanistan
Fight and flight
RAs US-led forces in Helmand province are in the midst of Operation Moshtarak (Pashto and Dari for 'together'), battling
Himalaya Today
This new quarterly news magazine deals with the economic, social and environmental issues facing the people of the Himalaya, but its major focus is politics. Due to the
By Rosha Bajracharya
Townspeople in Nepal have over 300 newspapers, both good and bad, to choose from. But so far, the people of the country´s 50,000-plus villages,
NEPAL
campaigns without a cause!
potential campaigns i will embark upon to make this world (re: nepal) one tad bit better (i'm only half kidding here. no, seriously)
While engaging in a favourite pastime, Chhetria Patrakar was even more entertained by all the fuss about idiots this past month, which took up even more ink than usual. Chetan
BANGLADESH/BURMA
Twice-made refugees
For decades now, the fate of ethnic Rohingya refugees living on the border between Burma and Bangladesh has been subject to the ever-changing political
On reading Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, this writer could not help wondering why Sri Lankan novelists writing in Sinhala have consistently failed to maintain a critical distance
Dear Maoist whole-timers:
Your leaders taught you to use violence for political change, but that lesson has proven irrelevant in Nepal's open society, which your party entered
The national elections planned for later this year are currently dominating everything else in Burma, despite the fact that there has been no official announcement about when the polls will
The work of the spirited intellectuals
was only to applaud and cheer –
India was so immoral then.
– Kailash Vajpeyi in "A Ritual of Naming"
He was a good
At the fifth DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, held 21-25 January, the Kumbh Mela met a five-day Punjabi wedding at the Diggi Palace, a grandiose 1860s structure owned by
