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Himal received 376 entries from 173 cartoonists from all over the world for the Southasian Cartoon Competition on the theme Dramatic Divide: The distance between
For a morsel of life!; A Dalit Watch report on flood relief camps in Bihar
In September 2008, Dalit Watch published a report on its findings while monitoring 205 relief
Photographs by Edwin Koo
Throngs of homebound Nepalis during this Dasain are forced to cross the Kosi river by boat and ferries, as the Kosi flood has broken theEast-West Highwayat
By Dinesh Kumar Mishra
Promised Irrigation
Through Eastern Kosi Main Canal 712,000 hectares
Slashed Down Target (1975) 374,000 hectares
Actual Irrigation 2003-04 141,970 ha (19.94%)
2004-05
Whatever the thinking behind the old Kosi and Gandak agreements between Nepal and India (1954 and 1959), they have left a legacy of resentment and mistrust in Nepal which has
Read Himals in-depth coverage of the Kosi crisis
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Photos by Arpan Shrestha
Comments by Ramaswamy R Iyer
A River in Disequilibrium by Kanak Mani Dixit;
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"Nobody from the government has gone to Saharsa so far. If the people in Saharsa are surviving, they must be saying that we are engulfed in water since ten
