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Conserving continuity: Reconstructing monuments of cultural heritage after Nepal earthquake will need community involvement

(This article is a part of the web-exclusive series from our latest issue 'Disaster Politics'. More from the print quarterly here.) The very first images of the 25

By Kai Weise

/ 2 Sep 2015

Conserving continuity: Reconstructing monuments of cultural heritage after Nepal earthquake will need community involvement

Letting go

FICTION: What ails Brojen Barua?

By Juanita Kakoty

/ 13 Aug 2015

‘A kick in the pants’

COLUMN: Of a writer and a magazine that brought drama to film criticism.

By Taran N Khan

/ 7 Aug 2015

Spinach soup and Abbottabad

FICTION

By Yudit Kiss

/ 31 Jul 2015

Surrealist Pakistan

'Hasan Ki Surat-e-Haal' marks an important formal departure from Pakistan’s Urdu literature.

By Haider Shahbaz

/ 15 Jul 2015

A heart of stone

FICTION: The mountains became my patience stone, and I hoped they could hold my secrets and sins.

By Abu Taha

/ 6 Jul 2015

Violence frame by frame

A new documentary looks at the build-up to the Muzaffarnagar riots and the aftermath.

By Taran N Khan

/ 1 Jul 2015

Pride and prejudice

FROM THE ARCHIVE: How the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government was trying to ram through a Hindu sectarian agenda in culture and education in 1999.

By Praful Bidwai

/ 26 Jun 2015

A bunker in every mind

A Kashmiri recounts his days under curfew.

By Shahnaz Bashir

/ 12 Jun 2015

The novelist’s canvas

In conversation with novelist Kamila Shamsie

By Nauman Khalid

/ 2 Jun 2015

Death of the Indian editor

Does the passing of Vinod Mehta mark a bleak future for editors in India?

By Ajith Pillai

/ 29 May 2015

Brick by brick: Salvaging Kathmandu Valley's historical sites after the 2015 earthquake

Citizens and authorities in Kathmandu Valley come together to salvage historical sites after the 2016 earthquake

By Rabi Thapa

/ 22 May 2015

Brick by brick: Salvaging Kathmandu Valley's historical sites after the 2015 earthquake