It does not seem to shame nor needlessly bother Kathmandu's ruling classes that highland peasants by the hundreds of thousands leave the country every year to work the most wretched jobs in the plains of India.
No ISP is an island
Sri Lanka's online presence has increased exponentially over the last couple of years, with more and more service providers joining in. The market
Kathmandu Valley´s booming economy has attracted plains labour by the tens of thousand.
Kathmandu residents do not need reminding that there is an open border between India and Nepal.
In Nepal, the problem with numbers is not unique to counting emigrants. Newspaper columnists, activists and researchers routinely manipulate or exaggerate figures in order to demonstrate the supposed seriousness of
You would not know it seeing lone Nepalis at work on the streets all over India, but there are a number of groups intent upon organising them and providing them
"The fact that Nepalis are by nature straightforward has been proved false."
On the night of 13 January 1996, 48-year-old executive Satya Prakash Sharma, his 42-year-old wife Shobhana,
Bengalee? Yes. Muslim? Yes, mostly. Bangladeshi? Yes. South Asian? Even that too. Confused? No question about that. In its twenty-fifth year, Bangladesh is still grasping after a personality.
Visitors coming to Nepal and expecting to feel the country´s "pulse" by reading the English papers and magazines will find themselves sadly out of touch. For, unlike
If you read only Urdu in Pakistan; you are expected to possess a world-view distinct from someone who reads only English. Urdu carries more domestic news and concentrates more on
South Asia lifted the idea of nation state from borrowed books. There is, however, another way of entering the twenty-first century.
When South Asia started its independent journey as a
The South Asian Nation needs to re-invent itself before it is torn apart by internecine conflicts.
In South Asia, ´nation´, ´nationalism´ and ´nationhood´ are all products of colonial history. There
Thimphu houses do not sport rooftop antennas, but the video parlours stock enough options.
It is Saturday night in Thimphu and in this quiet town without bars, clubs or night
