Nepal is little understood by outsiders because it was not colonised — the reason why there was not enough written about it till the mid-20th century. The country is also a
Beginning or an end?
In a scene from The Killing Terraces, a documentary screened at the inaugural of Film South Asia 2001, director Dhurba Basnet captures the cold fury of
'Thirty out of every hundred men 1 in the village of Nawadurga in Dadeldhura District at the western edge of Nepal have permanently settled in India. Another thirty go
The Bharatiya Janata Party of India, and its backup organisations, the Shiv Sena and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, would like to pretend that they stand up for the cow. But
The populist land reform package announced by Nepal's prime minister is preoccupied with the politics of setting new reduced ceilings on agricultural land holdings. Economic considerations targeted towards
The scale and style of this carnage, unprecedented in Nepal's history, is distressing even in comparison to the violence-ridden regions such as the Indian Northeast or Kashmir. Even
The initialling of the treaty, the circumstances that preceded, attended and followed it, its ratification followed by nearly immediate descent into disgrace and the limbo it has since lapsed into
The Pakistani carrier of Sesame Street is unpopular because it is filled with dull talking heads, duller government news, and unslick presentation compared to the Indian satellite channels. But besides
The most important step towards consolidating the Nepali state and nationalism is to end economic exploitation and to bring about social equality. Caste hierarchy also perpetuates economic class division. Nepal&
On a foggy Kathmandu morning on 2 December, a disparate group of Nepalis got into two long-distance buses. There were 70 in all, among them well-known doctors, policy-makers and heads
