Gadhimai Mela in Nepal will take place on 24 November, whether activists, sympathisers and critics cry themselves hoarse or not. Setting aside the visual repulsion, the macabre excess and the
In early December 1984, a poisoned cloud spewing from a factory lacking in safety mechanisms killed, maimed and choked tens of thousands. Twenty-five years on, the legacy of that fateful
A Spring Long Past
Dilip Simeon
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic – Albert Camus
India's Maoist movement (named Naxalism, after thana Naxalbari in Darjeeling district)
SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAMME
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
The South Asian Studies Programme (SASP) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore seeks two
• Is there such a thing as a South Asian civilisational community?
There is no such thing as a South Asian ´community´, only South Asian ´communities´. Even the term ´South Asian´
In the two years since the sidelining of Nepal's monarchy in April 2006, and the restoration of a democracy that promised a more inclusive polity, the country has
It is by now widely recognised that with the 1980s came a new tide of political movements and struggles around questions of community identity, globally as well as in Southasia.
Buddha and the Bomb
INDIA CERTAINLY did not choose an auspicious day for its 11 May nuclear tests at least as far as its 69-percent Buddhist neighbour, Sri Lanka, was
Dynamics and Development of Highland Ecosystems
by Ek Raj Ojha
Walden Book House, Kathmandu, 1999 (first edition)
pp xxxv, 279 + 28(unnumbered), price not mentioned
In recent years, the study
Resources and Population
A study of the Gurungs of Nepal
By Alan Macfarlane
Ratna Pustak Bhandar, Kathmandu, 2003
pp xxvi+364, no recommended price
ISBN 99933-0-377-1
This is the second
