For the third consecutive summer, the simmering anger in Jammu & Kashmir has erupted in agitation. Protestors crippled Srinagar with mass demonstrations and stone-pelting, and created a sustained challenge to
Just what is it about sex that brings out a society's deepest anxieties? Prudery and squeamishness, working in tandem with religious injunctions and restrictive laws, have managed to
Many Nepalis would be shocked to hear that Bhutan will face load-shedding from the coming winter. The citizens of Nepal have, after all, been told for decades that Bhutan has
It had long been believed that Afghanistan possessed mineral deposits of significance, partially confirmed by Russian geologists during the 1970s and 1980s. The long years of war and instability disallowed
Either Nepali politics is incredibly unscrupulous or it is a trailblazer, with some of the more sensitively democratic politicians chaperoning a post-conflict society. Take the case of the elections for
Okay, first things first. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) cadres need to understand what 'irony' means. Seriously. A group of them 'protested' (read: screamed, burnt tyres, brandished
They who in folly or mere greed
Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
Borrow our language now and bid
Us to speak up in freedom's cause.
– Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972)
Sunil Babu Pant is a member of Nepal's Constituent Assembly and the founder and executive director of the Blue Diamond Society (BDS), an organisation working with gender and
