The growth of community radio has long been retarded in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, states that inherited centralised systems of state control over electronic media. The experiences of Nepal and
The war against terrorism used to include a battle against poverty. The "war on terror" seems to have dumped that creditable cause.
When leaders of the institutions that
Leaders of the institutions that guide global economic development have set 2015 as a target date for reducing by half the number of human beings who live in extreme poverty.
What the anti-WTO movement means and where it can go
Does the Western anti-WTO movement represent all the world's people who are affected by the international trading system?
When the terror hit the United States on 11 September, while watching the endless reruns of the passenger jets ramming into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre,
The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking through Theatre in an Age of Globalisation
by Rustom Bharucha
New Delhi: OUP, 2001, pp. xiv+243, hardcover, Rs 545
There are many ideas
The replacement of lost wood-work as part of the restoration of the Ratneswara Temple in Kathmandu using the skills of traditional Nepali craftsmen, in breach of the Eurocentric norms that
The diseases are in the developing South, but the money and the patents are locked in the post-industrial North. The world's poor are in a free fall.
As
The most important step towards consolidating the Nepali state and nationalism is to end economic exploitation and to bring about social equality. Caste hierarchy also perpetuates economic class division. Nepal&
On a foggy Kathmandu morning on 2 December, a disparate group of Nepalis got into two long-distance buses. There were 70 in all, among them well-known doctors, policy-makers and heads
