Cover
Growth Is Slow
When Roots Are Deep
by V.R.N. Prasad
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and second President of India, had striven
to provide the intellectual basis for a Hindu renaissance, but his writings are neglected today.
How Hindu is
the Other Hindu-Stan?
by Sudhindra Sharma
The Hindu Kingdom of Nepal, despite the religious signifier, actually has very little 'Hinduism' in
its state structure even though the king is Hindu.
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Features
HIV—the Poverty Virus
by Naila Sattar
AIDS thrives on people's poverty and ignorance, and as the pandemic prepares to spread, it
threatens to sap the health of nations as well.
Arts and Society
Back to Square One
by Ramyata Limbu
Nepali film producers waste good money and celluloid, but are unable to keep the cinema buff's
attention from straying.
Departments
Mail
Twelve Spices
Child Abuse
Feminist Methodology
Past Delight
Tibetan du jour
Liberal Times
You Blew It
Give Me Nepali Himal
Intellectual's Voice
Saarconomy Suggestions
Mahakali Good
Follow-Up
Commentary
Beginning of the End?
President's Rule
Cities of Sub-Saharan Asia
Woman's Right, Father's Wrong
Sex Worker Myths (-Full Story)
Briefs
Sex on BBC
SAARC, Pakistan and Druk Yul
The Wayward Uncle
Powerless in Sri Lanka
Desi Spin Doctors
Yaks Die in Tibet
Women, Children and Religion
Happy New Year
Mediafile
Saarconomy
Escap
on Saarc
Young
South Asian
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The Middle Class Roots of Hindutva
by Sanjay Joshi
The rise of political and cultural Hindu assertiveness in India is connected more with notions of
pride than any form of religiosity.
Mahmud's Bitter Legacy
by Mohammad Habib
The Hindu-Muslim schism, also reflected in the India-Pakistan enmity, is the most crippling of all
South Asian maladies. In order to understand this problem, its origins, and ramifications, with this
issue, Himal begins an occasional column, "Hindu and Muslim".
Bovine
Boondoggle in Bihar
by Ramesh Upadhayay
How is it that one of the largest-ever embezzlement scams in India, involving unimaginable crores
of rupees, occurs in its poorest state?
Book
Review
Refugees and Regional Security in South Asia edited by S.D. Muni and Lok Raj
Baral
Living with Torturers and Other Essays of Intervention: Sri Lankan Society, Culture and
Politics in Perspective by Sasanka Perera
Analysis
Sri Lanka's
South Still Smoulders
by Sasanka Perera
Twice, the Sri Lankan state crushed the JVP movement and preoccupied itself with the Tamil war
in the north and east. In the south, conditions which gave rise to the JVP and its brand of bloody
politics fester.
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Opinion
Dilli R. Dahal on Deviant Anthropology
Reconsidering a British scholar's quarter-century-old work on caste-ethnic relations in east Nepal,
a Nepali scoial scientist finds reason to make a case against "biased anthropology".
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Tsering Wangyal
on Tibet ignored
The neglect of Tibet by South Asia's intellectuals in insensitive and ignoble. Even if they were
to ignore the Tibetans in exile, what of the Tibetans within Tibet?
Profile
Asma Jahangir:
The Frontline Activist
by Fawad Usman Khan
"The time for dilly-dallying is over, we need to facr the issues up front," says Pakistan's foremost
human rights activist.
Abominably Yours
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