The director of Kathmandu's Film South Asia festival of documentaries looks back at the history of documentary films, maps evolving trends in the genre, reflects on the emergence of a substantial body of viewers for serious non-fiction and ponders on the ways in which these films can be taken to a l
I tend to disagree with the concept of art for art's sake and view all creative activity as purposive – be it literature, art, music or even cinema. However,
Taking on the postcolonial postmodernists and reinstating the Enlightenment
THE VEDIC PEOPLE
Their History and Geography
Rajesh Kochhar
Orient Longman, Hyderabad
2000, Paperback, 259 pp
ISBN 81 250 1080 7
IRs 275
By Rhoderick Chalmers
The search for origins
Himalayan Waters: Promise and Potential. Problems and Politics
by Shim Subba,
Panos South Asia, 2001
This is an excellent and beautifully illustrated handbook on everything anyone may want to know
IUNBECOMING CITIZENS: Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan
Michael Hutt
Oxford University Press, New Delhi
2003, Hardcover, 308 pp
An engineer-turned-social auditor produces a book for the classroom that comprehensively critiques the certitudes of the global and South Asian water technocracy.
Foreign Aid and Politics in Nepal: A Case Study
Eugene Bramer Mihaly.
2002.(Originally published by Oxford University Press 1965).
It is a moot point whether Nepal consumes aid or
Irony and brilliance in Tibetan literature.
Slumming India: A Chronicle of Slums and Their Saviours
by Gita Dewan Verma
Penguin Books India, 2002, New Delhi, paperback, pp xxiv + 183, INR 200;
ISBN 0-14-302875-8
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