For the past thirty years, millions of Karen villagers in Burma have been living a precarious existence, regularly being displaced from their huts into the surrounding forests and state-controlled relocation
In a city where the skyline has long been defined by massive hoarding boards, there was one on Marine Drive a few years ago that captured Bombay's ethos
Land, land everywhere, but not a patch for those who till. Indeed, land ownership in most districts of Nepal's southern Tarai districts remains highly skewed in favour of
The kingdom of Bhutan has always remained resolutely isolated from political trends in the rest of Southasia. But a process of change has been speeding up, ever since former King
Legend has it that a young god Krishna once complained to his foster mother, Yashodha, that Radha was so fair in stark contrast to his dark hue. Yashodha humorously told
They are another souvenir of Partition, the Biharis – or stranded Pakistanis – of Bangladesh.
Changing fashions on the streets of Dhaka
This year too, late monsoon rains brought news of devastation as mountain-sides succumbed to the pull of gravity – from the Indian north-east westward, through Bhutan, Nepal, Himachal Pradesh and beyond.
The closure of the southern transit points by India, in late March, brought unprecedented crisis to landlocked Nepal. The impact was severest in Kathmandu, where two kinds of lines were
On the night of 19 January, the main building and courtyard of the Tengboche monastery in the Khumbu region caught fire and burned to the ground. The fire had begun
Dharan town and the hill villages of East Nepal were in deep slumber. Then came an ominous rumbling, followed by violent jerking of the ground. Amidst collapsed houses and landslides,
