Nepal - Himal Southasian (Page 28)

Ready to act

The Nepali Parliament is winding down its monsoon session amidst the most rowdy inter-party squabble the Lower House has ever seen, reminding one of the bedlam that overtook the Uttar

By Rajendra Dahal

/ 1 Oct 1998

Beyond behaviour change

AIDS in Nepal: Communities Confronting an Emerging Epidemic by Jill Hannum AmFAR/Seven Stories Press New York, 1997

By Stacy Leigh Pigg

/ 1 Oct 1998

HMG, RGOB & GOT: The triumvirate of inaction and Bhutans refugee crisis

When New Delhi and Thimphu fail to act, that's to their perceived benefit. When Kathmandu fails to act, that's to its detriment, and to that of

By Karin Heissler

/ 1 Oct 1998

South Asia’s sex trade myths

Nepal Nepal was the original maker of the myth of trafficking in the regional and international community. Gita and her drugged Frooti established the precedent in South Asia for heart-

By John Frederick

/ 1 Oct 1998

Badge of Nationalism

"Kalapani"- waters – the term has an ominous ring to it in much of South Asia due to its association with the hellish colonial-era penitentiary in the Andamans.

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1998

Sex and marriage in Nepal

The Nepali Supreme Court's landmark decision against virginity tests reaffirms the legal definition of marriage but it is not as progressive as it appears to be.

By Shanta Basnet Dixit

/ 1 Sep 1998

Nepal forgets Tibet

Kathmandu is closer to Beijing than to Lhasa. Till as late as the first decade of this century, the government in Kathmandu paid tribute to the Chinese court. Once every

By Kanak Mani Dixit

/ 1 Jun 1998

No big deal

The Wall Street Journal billed it a national debacle akin to the World Bank´s withdrawal from the controversial Arun III hydel project in August 1995. But strangely enough, the

By Rajendra Dahal

/ 1 Jun 1998

Protecting journalists by committee Oppressive governments and terrorist organisations have a propensity to confuse the truth with bad news and to further confuse the news with the messenger. They labour

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Constitutional iceberg

Not all, but some of the problems of the nascent Nepali democracy seem directly linked to the Constitution which was drafted over the course of 1990 under the aegis of

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Big dams, Bad economics.

Why build high dams if you're going to waste water and electricity? On 5 and 6 April 1997, six hundred activists from all over Bihar and various parts

By Ajaya Dixit

/ 1 Mar 1998

Political Pus

Nothing better expresses the state of Nepali politics than the question on everyone´s minds these days: What next? A dysfunctional right-centre coalition government has just survived a no-confidence motion

By Dipak Gyawali

/ 1 Mar 1998