From Panchayat-era moralism to donor-driven publishing, and today a rising crop of local initiatives, the shifts in Nepal’s children’s literature reflect the difficult history of the country itself
Spanning Kerala, the Arabian Gulf and more, the celebrated Malayalam novelist’s works narrate the realities of globalisation from below, and the heavy burdens of displacement and migration
Daniel Majchrowicz’s The World in Words traces the rise of Urdu travel writing, including by women, to unearth a new view on modernisation and globalisation in Southasia
A new collection of essays seeks to make sense of our new multimedia world, where we are both producers and consumers, newly free and newly constrained
For an institution that seeks to introduce a rule-based regime of global trade, ostensibly through civilised consensus between member states, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) provokes a fair degree of
In 1933, the great economist John Maynard Keynes said, "I sympathise with those who would minimise, rather than with those who would maximise, economic entanglement among nations … let goods
Globalisation is such a fascinating and powerful idea that it never fails to evoke a strong reaction, either supporting it with a missionary zeal or opposing it with the passion
