At the heart of the Indian foreign-policy and security architecture is the pre-eminent position of the national-security advisor (NSA). The recent decision to appoint former Foreign Secretary
The major lesson of the first post-war national election in Sri Lanka is that politics in the country is transforming. The debates, the challenges and the election itself were
There is an exquisite photograph by the US space agency NASA of Sri Lanka and part of the Subcontinent from space, taken during the Gemini 11 mission in September 1966
Use twice per decade for purging, my new matchbox, Fire-brand matches, states in small letters on the back. My father would have really liked this one, as he was
Learning about the rise and fall of Development International has been instructive. DI tried to do internationally what Himal is attempting regionally. Mark Feisenthal, Associate Editor of DI until its
Scanning the newsstands in Darjeeling, Dehra Dun or Kathmandu, one would not know it, but there exists a variety of periodicals devoted exclusively to the Himalaya. Some target the grassroots,
Ominous
Year Ahead?
If you have any respect for Tibetan astrological predictions: and the views of Jhampa Gyaltsen Drakton, Chief ::::: Astrologer at the Tibetan Medical and Astro Institute in DhararnsaJa,
It is good to see fledgling Nepal-TV doing so well, but distressing to note that most of its advertising revenue seems to derive from come-hither advertisements from soda
Vijay Prashad's obit-piece A Marxist and a Gentleman on Jyoti Basu, arguably one of the few balanced Marxists, makes for depressive reading, beginning with an artificial separation
A World Bank mission arrives inNepal in mid-May to appraise the feasibility of the modified Arun III scheme, affectionately known as "Baby Arun". Thisrather oversized baby is
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