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December, 2008
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contains all the nepali news. Post your views on news. Know nepal well. Political and other ascepts of Nepal. Online News of Nepal,Comprehensive information about Nepal on the Internet.
Prospecting the treasure house
By: Carey L Biron
Toons in trying times
The underappreciated achievements of Nepali satire.
Abu in London
By: Mark Bryant
Southasia’s most prominent political cartoonist spent some of his formative years cartooning in Britain.
The pea under the mattress
By: Sadanand Menon
A retrospective of Abu Abraham’s cartoons, meant to “burst bloating bladders of lies and pomposity”.
A cow is a cow
By: Sadanand Menon
Dancing with demons
By: Manjula Padmanabhan
Cartooning, stress and laughing at death.
Essay
Real woes in a virtual worldBy: Aseem Shrivastava
Are we witnessing the end of neo-liberalism, or the beginning of the end of capitalism itself?
Report
Women and work in GarhwalBy: Pankaj H Gupta
What about rangzen?
By: Ashwini Bhatia & Carey L Biron
An ostensibly historic decision has been taken in Dharamsala, but the future has been anything but clarified.
Democratic dawn
By: Simon Shareef
Analysis
Finger in the dikeBy: Dinesh Kumar Mishra
While a timetable has now been announced for plugging the embankment breach on the Kosi, local communities are left to wonder – how much will it help?
Sighting
Victory’s silenceBy: Bina D'Costa
‘War babies’ and Bangladesh’s tragedy of abortion and adoption.
Not remembering Plessey
By: Sankar Ray
Time and a place
The reservoirs of DholaviraBy: Namit Arora
Many mysteries of this Harappan metropolis are yet to be unravelled.
Southasiasphere
Continent and SubcontinentBy: CK Lal
The problem of conceptualising Asian-ness is that it is not a question of finding similarities, but of envisioning the coexistence of diversities.
Reflections
Theatre serves the nationBy: Uma Mahadedvan-Dasgupta
Another year of the Prithvi theatre festival brings all of India to the stage.
Review
A failing balance: Descent into Chaos by Ahmed RashidBy: Arif Azad
book review of ahmen rashids new book descent into chaos about the current situation of chaos in afghanistan and US, pakistan, central asian involvement in the mess
self-love and loathing: Bitter Fruit by Saadat Hasan Manto
By: Prasenjit Chowdhury
book review of bitter fruit, a collection of 51 stories written by Pakistani writer saadat hasan manto translated and edited by pakistani journalist khalid hasan from urdu into english. The collection of short stories include vignettes and sketches on the 1947 partition killings, mantos reminiscences of bombay cinema, and biographical portraits written by manto.
Compressed provincialism: 'Susurrus in the Skull' by Rabindra Swain
By: Himansu S Mohapatra
Profile
Free man as presidentBy: Dilrukshi Handunnetti
With Mohamed Nasheed at the helm, Maldivians finally have a government they can criticise – and own.
Interview
The 'terrorist' is no fire-breathing dragonBy: Rakesh Shukla
With the 7 July bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, the 13 September blasts in Delhi, the 20 September bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, and the recent 26 November attacks in Bombay, the study of what makes a ´terrorist´ is of increasing relevance to Southasia.
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The art of statelessness 10 February 2014
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Fragments of the lives of the Rohingya refugees in Jammu
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Reconstructing the North and democratising Sri Lanka 7 February 2014
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A room of his own 4 February 2014
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In conversation with Goa-based poet Manohar Shetty
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Musharraf’s last stand 30 January 2014
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There are many ways to destroy a city 23 January 2014
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Reflections on the recent attack targetting a Kabul institution, the Taverna du Liban restaurant.
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Inside and Out 17 January 2014
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By Annie McCarthy |
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New queer writing from Southasia suggests shifts in attitudes since 2009.
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Archives of Southasia 14 January 2014
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In celebrating the reissue of Himal’s first print quarterly, we offer a series of articles on the state of archiving in...
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The life and letters of Elizabeth Draper 13 January 2014
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Courting prospects 9 January 2014
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Despite state overtures, localised identities provide a powerful argument against Baltistan’s coarsely wrought borders....
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Autonomy under siege 7 January 2014
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Seeding the future 31 December 2013
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The use of modern seeds stands to erode the genetic diversity of local seed varieties in Nepal
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Announcement
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Himal Southasian is relaunched in print! |
The archive: 25 years of Southasia
Image: Penguin India
Penguin India withdraws The Hindus
On 11 February 2014, Penguin India decided to recall and destroy all remaining copies of Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: An Alternative History. The decision was part of an agreement between them and Shiksha Bachao Andolan, a Hindu campaign group that filed a case against the publishers in 2010, arguing that the book was insulting to Hindus and contained “heresies”.
From our archive:
Diwas Kc reviews The Hindus: An Alternative History. (March 2010)
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