Challenged by the Future,
Shackled by the Past

by Dipak Gyawali

(Cover Story - extract)

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. (-Full Story)

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

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.
(-Full Story)

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".
(-Full Story)

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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