Vivekanandan has worked with fishing communities for over a quarter-century. Most of that was spent with the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies, a cooperative organisation for small fishermen, of
Sunil Babu Pant is a member of Nepal's Constituent Assembly and the founder and executive director of the Blue Diamond Society (BDS), an organisation working with gender and
Nalini Jameela, author of The Autobiography of a Sex Worker (2007; extracts below) and the forthcoming The Company of Men: The romantic encounters of a sex worker is a former
At Partition, the Chittagong Hill Tracts, with an overwhelmingly non-Muslim indigenous population, were included within Muslim-majority East Pakistan. Yet the Paharis (indigenous hill peoples) were never really integrated into the
Richard Boyle interviews Grataien Prize winner Prashani Rambukwella, author of Mythil´s Secrets. Since superstition is an important facet in Sri Lanka, Prashani Remvukwella, a Sri Lanka-born writer currently working
An honorary research professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Jack D Ives is a longtime advocate for the well-being of mountain communities.
What got you interested in the Pakistani military?
It was partly a result of watching war films in cinemas as a child with my parents, who were too modest to
On 1 November, former Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah withdrew from Afghanistan´s contentious second round of polling, which would have pitted him against incumbent President Hamid Karzai for a
The world's worst industrial disaster, in Bhopal in 1984, left an estimated 8000 dead within a few days of the gas leak. Over subsequent years, about 25,000
While relatively little is known definitively about the glaciers of the Himalaya and Hindukush, what facts do exist need to be acknowledged as such.
Rajendra Pachauri heads TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, based in New Delhi. An engineer of the railways in his early career, Pachauri went to the United States to earn
