Retrofitting SAARC
Not much hope that the 8-member South Asian bloc can be revived even after the Indian elections
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Indo-Pak tension hits SAARC climate action
At the 18th SAARC Summit in Kathmandu in 2014, member countries committed to work together against climate change, and raise a collective voice...
Nepal and the Taliban’s second coming
Even though Nepal and Afghanistan are separated geographically, Nepali and Pashtun warriors have met face-to-face over more than 200 years. While the...
Global thinking and local action on coronavirus
The biggest lesson of COVID-19 is that individuals and nations cannot protect only themselves, we are all in this together
Beyond the nation state in South Asia
Against the Nation: Thinking like South Asians contains 22 essays authored by three sociologists -- Sasanka Perera, Dev Nath Pathak and Ravi...
Nepal tests and treats TB with a flying pharmacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf4OpwoblRc&feature=youtu.beProblem: Some 70% of Nepalis are carriers of the tuberculosis bacillus and many of them have full-blown versions of the disease. Although...
Re-imagining South Asia
The book Another South Asia! with an assertive exclamation mark in its title requires one to pause, and step back to recall...
Bimstec facelift
That the fourth BIMSTEC summit would be declared a “success” was a foregone conclusion because there wasn’t really much expected of the...
Sorry state
Now that the leaders of the awkwardly acronymed BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) are in the...
Janakpur to Janakpur
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Nepal next week for the third time since becoming PM, he will not only aim...
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