The political stability promised by the People's Movement of April 2006, which led to the downfall of the Nepali monarchy and brought the Maoists into aboveground politics, has
Around the world, the narrative of the past two hundred years can arguably be framed in terms of how peoples of different 'nations' have come together and defined
Seasons of Flight
by Manjushree Thapa
Penguin/Viking, 2010
When Thapa's The Tutor of History was published, in 2001, it was hailed as the first significant novel to
If instability, anarchy, mayhem and insecurity be the stuff of life, then we should be happy to be living in the Subcontinent, in many regards the most violent part of
While India’s new Right to Education Act seeks to bring free and compulsory education for all children, it seems to short-change them through an unrealistic vision of the private sector’s involvement.
Despite President Zardan’s apology on behalf of the Pakistani state to Balochistan for its past marginalisation and oppression, little has changed on the ground.
Tell me, what are we to celebrate –
the death of more children,
burnt Christians,
the 'internally displaced persons'?
The lootings and killings of the Baloch
or my Sindh&
In April, the conferences of two international groupings – BRIC (Brazil-Russia-India-China) and IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) – brought some of the world's highest-profile heads of state to Brazil. Amidst all the
It is past noon. We are coloured twigs across parallel lines. We have been lying here for hours in the heat. There is some discussion about whether two hundred and
During Bangladesh's 'language movement' of 1952, scholar Syed Yusuf Hasan was the first Urdu-speaker to issue a statement supporting Bangla as one of the two state
