The Editors - Himal Southasian (Page 137)

Throes of a vertigo

Sylvan Levi (1863-1935), the French indologist visited Kathmandu Valley – then capital of a truly forbidden kingdom at turn of century, seeking long-lost Buddhist texts that may have been preserved in

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1998

IN GOD’S NAME

By now, Pakistanis are used not only to governments coming and going, but also to their using religion to shore up diminishing popularity. Benazir Bhutto's father did it,

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998

KILLING FIELDS OF KILINOCHCHI

Twenty seven lorries flying Red Cross flags wended their way on 30 September through the thick Tamil Tiger-held Vanni jungles of northern Sri Lanka into government military territory. The lorries

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998

Fatwa Fury

Taslimanasreen returned to Bangladesh about the same time the more celebrated Salman Rushdie received a semi-reprieve from the fatwa issued against him by the long-gone Ayatollah Khomeini. These kinds of

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998

Round-up of regional news

Meena is the message No Superhuman feats for her, no inter-galactic forays, and certainly no dishum-dishum crime-busting scenes. Ten-year-old Meena, the video cartoon character, is on a different, more arduous,

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998

The Taliban and the Hazaras

They issued me the last ticket to see the Great Buddha. Then they collected the stubs and the visitor's books and bundled them into the sacks of documents

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998

Badge of Nationalism

"Kalapani"- waters – the term has an ominous ring to it in much of South Asia due to its association with the hellish colonial-era penitentiary in the Andamans.

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1998

Round-up of regional news

Hiroshima mon amour HIROSHIMA, 5 AUGUST 1998: the day before the 53rd anniversary of the world´s first atomic bombing, which levelled the city and killed thousands of innocent men,

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1998

Prisoners of Shangri-La

The renowned Tibetologist, Donald Lopez Jr, recently published an excellent account of how Tibetan Buddhism in the West was decontextualised and sanitised. Lopez Jr, echoing a recent spate of similar

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1998

Round-up of regional news

The monument features women in relief on a huge stone slab, and is flanked by an iron pillar that proclaims in Japanese and English, "Let peace prevail on earth&

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1998

The gas rush

Bangladesh these days is getting to know what noveau celebrityhood is all about. Sitting on a potential USD 25 billion treasury chest of gas deposits, gone are the days when

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1998

Ration card monster

Even while the SAARC leadership met on Bentota´s sunny beaches, India´s prime minister was being embarrassed by his insistent ally, Bombay´s don, Bal Thackeray. As part of

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1998