You can be a republican and still be nostalgic when a historical institution bites the dust. That is what Nepal's 240-year-old monarchy is about to do. The New
For decades, the national anthem of Nepal was of the kind that made citizens cringe. "Sri maan gambhir…" sung to a Western martial tune that had nothing in
Prashant Tamang, we know, is the West Bengali, Nepali-speaking citizen of India who made it right to the top of the Indian Idol television tamasha. But who is the '
The fact is, India and Pakistan are developing nuclear weapons and missile-delivery systems even as we speak. The lull in diplomatic acrimony between the two countries is cold comfort: there
Autumn of 1977. A 22-year-old studying law in Delhi University took the Wagah-Attari route – then a series of super-fast dilapidated buses – through Lahore, Peshawar, Khyber and Jalalabad, to arrive in
Just a stone's throw from the sedate, tree-lined, high-end New Delhi neighbourhood of Nizamuddin East is a patch of Old Delhi – one of the places along the Jamuna
Arreh! Arreh! Kya baat!
Readers who have a Hindostani (Hindi-Urdu) heritage will have no difficulty following those exclamations, but they never stop and consider that these are alien terms to
Who is the most humiliated man or woman in Asia? Some would suggest Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted by the Thai military for being a bad man. Which he was, as an
The citizens of the erstwhile Indian state of Assam have decided to challenge the rest of us by starting a campaign whereby our tongues will be twisted beyond company specifications,
The name of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, today identifies the richest Southasian (male) to the world. Lakshmi Mittal, of Mittal Steel, is an Indian based in the United
