The Indian Express, 21 January 2010
Figure this out. Eleven Pakistani men, most of them members of the squad that won the 2009 Twenty20 world championship, were among the cricketers
Although we are only five years old, already Jaipur is the biggest literature festival in Asia and the biggest completely free festival of literature in the world. As well as
In the headlong rush from producing one Himal to preparing another, this column (meant to communicate with readers) tends to receive short shrift. So hello again, afteralengthy hiatus.
Firstly, we
FOREIGN AID AND FOREIGN POLICY THE CASE OF BRITISH AID TO NEPAL
by R. Andrew Nickson Development Administration Group University of Birmingham, 1992 ISBN 0 7044 1258 6 6 Pounds
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Tehri, Earthquaqes and Bureauracy
If you were India´s seniormost bureaucrat on water resources, would you look kindly on a workshop meant to study "Earthquake Hazard and
Something Gives in Tibet
What do Levis Strauss & Co. and the Dalai Lama have in common, which sets them apart from Chris Patten? Well, the manufacturer of blue denim
Sol´s gone down, run aground,
Wan glow wanes in westwake;
The duskin´ air is moisty.
Soundlessly,
Dip, slide east,
´tis twilight, throat´s thirsty.
Jetstream steam, ill at ease,
Before the beginning of August last year, Manidhar bista had come running ten times if he´d come once, to employ Pudke damai as a ploughman. So Pudke had ploughed
Beyond the Ganges river jMthe mountains of Nepal There lives my hairy YETI, Shi´s the fairest of them all. She´s lissome and curvatious And as Ye lis ga,
Living Out a Refugee Welcome
The situation in
Southeast Nepal
will become explosive
if the Bhutanese refugees stay there
much longer.
Meanwhile, their
leaders concentrate
on running each other down.
How to Tackle an Act of God?
Astory of misery unfolds in Nepal every year during the rainy season. Generally, these misfortunes do not affect the lives of the people
Standing on a high ridge and cocking an ear against the wind, I can hear the distant thunder of approaching Development. A short way down the frothing wild rapids of
