Of late, the media has been awash with reports of Information Technology (IT) personnel in the United States, many of them South Asian, being given the pink slip in the
One of the first things that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government embarked on when it came to power was to 'rectify' the various institutional anomalies
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The benefits of the Internet far outweigh its faults, says Altamash Kamal.
It was during an uncharacteristically sultry summer afternoon attending a session Of a Salzburg seminar our years ago
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Free software allows users to look into the computer's software, and not treat it just as a mystical black box.
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Moran of Kathmandu: Pioneer Priest, Educator, and Ham Radio Voice of the Himalayas
by Donald A. Messerschmidt
White Orchid Press, Bangkok.
1997314 pp, NPR 650
Looking only at India-Nepal scholarship as example, a Kathmandu historian finds little reason to be optimistic about the production of quality scholarship among SAARC countries about each other.
Official SAARC
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