Indra Bahdur Kapchake
The news item in the papers in late January was brief and perfunctory. A 55-year-old man had been run over by a bus in the
The people of some of Pakistan’s strategically placed frontier areas are finally getting political rights. Not everyone is happy about this.
This is a tale of censorship. Of how a government belea guered by war with a deadly opponent, chose to muzzle its media. Of how the media took on the
Shadow War:
The untold story of jihad in Kashmir
by Arif Jamal
Melville House Publishing, 2009
The Limits of Influence:
America's role in Kashmir
by Howard B Schaffer
Torment of silver nights, a pain with no cure,
Heartache unanswered, the body's long cry of despair –
Only a few days, dear one, a few days more.
– Faiz
Nine months after the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) took charge of the government following success in the elections to the Constituent Assembly, the national condition in Nepal today is
