development

Who has the power to secure and legislate public spaces in cities?

Dhaka and Bangladesh are evolving on dramatically different courses.

The confessions of a conflicted aid worker, a year after the earthquake.

Pankaj Sekhsaria’s new novel about the Andaman islands turns real life into compelling prose.

The book makes a devastating critique of the ‘growth at any cost paradigm’.

Economist Amit Bhaduri speaks about the current direction of the Indian economy.

As a new government is formed in Kathmandu, how can Nepal not only learn from the changes underway in Bihar, but capitalise on them?

As times change in rural Bihar, so does the social texture of the village.

With politics at a standstill in Kathmandu, governance should be shifting to the local levels. In fact, the national is holding the local hostage.