The collapse of the SAARC summit, and why no one particularly cares.
Nepal has been following the authoritarian lead of Pakistan since the 1960s. It is time to stop doing so.
So let the smoking rains fall on the mind's rain forest. So many funeral masks are preserved in the earth that nothing is yet lost.
– Victor Serge
The
When you left even the stones were buried: The defenceless would have no weapons. When the ibex rubs itself against the rocks, who collects its fallen fleece from the slopes?
CHAWENG BEACH on Samui Island in the Gulf of Thailand and the Thamel tourist quarter in Kathmandu Valley have a lot of common, most obviously in those trying to sell
Sikkim and Darjeeling: Division and Deception
KMT Press, Phuentsholing 2002
pp 248, no recommended price
Dr Sonam B Wangyal
South Asia's blurred cultural boundaries are being given sharp edges with frontiers full of patrolling soldiers, the raising of border security forces, and even barbed barricades and floodlights.
When the terror hit the United States on 11 September, while watching the endless reruns of the passenger jets ramming into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre,