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Cracked Earth
Explainer: Why embankments won’t solve Nepal’s flood woes
By Peter Gill and Bhola Paswan
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People & Politics
Bahunvada: Myth or reality?
By Kamal P Malla
ARCHIVE: The Kathmandu essayist on the history of ethnic hierarchy in modern Nepal (1992).
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Well - read
Crossroads in Sri Lankan history
By Tamara Fernando
Cosmopolitanism as an antidote to the island's nationalist history.
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Mirrors
All she had to say
By Gopilal Acharya
FICTION
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Grounded
The Maldives’ abducted development
By Peter Dorset
The disappearance of journalist Ahmed Rilwan and the other side of ‘paradise’.
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Mediafile
Thinking with one’s keyboard
By Chhetria Patrakar
Clichéd journalism on Sri Lanka’s political crisis.
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Gallery
Fact sheet on Myanmar
By The Editors
A quick look at the social and economic profile of the country through key statistics collected between 2010 - 2016.
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Reportage
Hindutva in Chicago
By Slok Gyawali
The World Hindu Congress in Chicago and the Hindu right’s plans to rebrand their ideology.
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Commentary
India’s #MeToo moment
By Laxmi Murthy
Due process and the art of listening
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Analysis
Bahunvada: Myth or reality?
By Kamal P Malla
ARCHIVE: The Kathmandu essayist on the history of ethnic hierarchy in modern Nepal (1992).
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Images
Forgotten alleys of the old camp
By Kaamil Ahmed
How Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh continue to risk their lives in search of a better life elsewhere.
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Reviews
Crossroads in Sri Lankan history
By Tamara Fernando
Cosmopolitanism as an antidote to the island's nationalist history.
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Voices
In the embrace of letting go
By Topden Tsering
A Tibetan writer’s personal essay on a death in the family.
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Persona
Shahidul Alam: Lessons in unlearning
By Alisha Sett
The eye that challenged the status quo.
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In focus
Before Democracy
By Nic Dunlop
Images of a country under the junta
25 Years of Archives
Looking back on Bhutan
As Bhutanese voters get ready to go to the polls on 18 October 2018 in what will be the young democracy’s third parliamentary elections, we take a look back at our extensive coverage of the Himalayan kingdom over the years.
Read our explainer on the upcoming elections here.
From the archives:
Kanak Mani Dixit’s comprehensive longform piece on Bhutan’s Lhotshampa question – ‘The dragon bites its tail’: Part I | Part II | Part III (July 1992)
Aletta Andre on Bhutan’s 2013 elections and the struggle of stateless Lhotshampas. (October 2013)
Reena Mohan on the challenges faced by filmamakers in Bhutan. (September 2013)
T P Mishra on resettlement and naturalization for Bhutan’s Lhotshampas. (January 2015)
Ross Adkin on civil service hopefuls in Bhutan and the country’s contemporary literary culture. (August 2016)
Dawa Gyelmo on how collection of a fungus known as cordyceps, or ‘fungus gold’, generates both cash and controversy. (February 2016)
A short story from Bhutan by Gopilal Acharya. (September 2016)
