Despite the importance of the clashes at Khara and Pili in turning the trends of Nepal's decade-long war, both sides have worked to bury the memory of these battles.
Outside the stately Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) at 7 Lyons Range, row after row of closely packed, ramshackle cubicles buzz with activity. Hundreds of operators, all clad in white dhoti-kurtas,
For the past thirty years, millions of Karen villagers in Burma have been living a precarious existence, regularly being displaced from their huts into the surrounding forests and state-controlled relocation
Gatekeepers at the roundtable
The Panos-Himal Southasian media gatekeepers' roundtable,11-12 November 2006.
Since May 2002, five gatekeepers' roundtables have been held on the India-Pakistan engagement, organised by
Since we are
our worst enemies,
is it any surprise
that barbed wire,
watchtowers and searchlights
keep neighbours apart,
border guards suddenly
slug it out
for no apparent reason,
families
Flowers of veneration,
At somebody's feet.
Placed by creepers,
Washed away by waves.
-Shambhunath Singh/em in emSamay ki shila par
In the hoary Hindu tradition of eulogising
At the turn of the 19th century, when a Swiss aristocrat named Baron de Coubertin first dreamt up the idea of the modern Olympic Games, it was a Eurocentric enterprise.
Himal: Do you believe that the Government of India and the Indian intelligentsia are today more aware of the need for Southasian integration? What has led to this change?
Prime
Moving beyond the colonial-era understanding of the history of the Subcontinent gives us a whole new way of looking at the Subcontinent´s past. This now includes not just the usual explorations of politics and economy, but also of social, cultural and religious issues - as well as the writing of his
In a city where the skyline has long been defined by massive hoarding boards, there was one on Marine Drive a few years ago that captured Bombay's ethos
