The best hope for making cities livable, and at the same time stopping the juggernaut of urban developmentthat destroys the surrounding environment, is to promote "compact development" and
Primary education in Nepal has seen major developments in recent decades.Given that there were so few when the country opened its doors to the world in 1950, the very
Among the colonies of the British Empire, Ceylon, as it was then known, was far ahead of its neighbours with regard to its primary and secondary school systems. Small both
Fifteen years ago, I moved to the government school system from teaching English in one of Delhi's leading, private trust-run schools. Looking back, despite some changes, the government
In accordance with a traditional understanding that continues to be widely followed in our region by many educationists, the process of learning in Southasia today is still largely by rote.
In almost any situation one can safely say that the eruption of violence marks a setback for education. I am not hinting at the chronic shortage of funds for education
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Ever since that book of mine, Animal's People, came out, I have become quite a traveller. Used to be that hardly did I set my four feet
When I arrived in Bhopal soon after the disaster, I was rather unprepared. Rushing to the city from the small town four hours away where I worked in an NGO,
The world's worst industrial disaster, in Bhopal in 1984, left an estimated 8000 dead within a few days of the gas leak. Over subsequent years, about 25,000
• 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.
