When Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his Nepali counterpart, Prakash Chandra Lohani, put their signature on a treaty for the integrated development of the Mahakali river, which runs
Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India's Brothels
Human Rights Watch/Asia 1995
This book is about tragedy, major tragedy. Unfortunately, Rape jar Profit
Doon School Wants a Taste of SAARC
India's elite send their children to the Doon School, at the idyllic foothills of Garhwal, so that they are groomed to
In 1898, a French scholar came to Nepal in order to study ancient monuments, inscriptions, texts and manuscripts. They had been preserved here better than in India, thanks to the
Lhotshampas, the Nepali-speaking people of southern Bhutan, are being forcibly evicted from their country by an elite that fears demographic inundation. Such fears are understandable, but not the method of
According to official figures, about 98 per cent of the 110 million people of Bangladesh are Bengalis — part of the larger Bengali population in the Indian states of West Bengal,
Contrary to popular Nepali perception, the Kosi Project may have proved to be a nightmare for those who live within the embankment area.
The Kosi floods of July 1991 have
Over the last two decades, environmental activism in India has matured into a strong voice which demands a new order of development that is both socially just and ecologically sustainable.
An estimated 40 million people in India alone suffer from goitre. A large percentage of these are cretins, who are mentally or physically retarded. Far from being a "cosmetic&
