Interview in ‘Samaji Dunya’ magazine
Interview published in Samaji Dunya (a quarterly magazine in Sindhi Language) To download the full interview (in .pdf), please click here
Interview published in Samaji Dunya (a quarterly magazine in Sindhi Language) To download the full interview (in .pdf), please click here
From Himal Southasian, Volume 23, Number 9 (SEP 2010) 19 August: Independence Day of Afghanistan 14, 15 August: independence days of Pakistan and India, respectively 4 February: Independence Day of Sri Lanka 26 March: Independence Day of Bangladesh Respectively, 1919, 1947, 1948 and 1971. August is the month of independence days in Southasia, taking in …
From Himal Southasian, Volume 23, Number 8 (AUG 2010) Either Nepali politics is incredibly unscrupulous or it is a trailblazer, with some of the more sensitively democratic politicians chaperoning a post-conflict society. Take the case of the elections for the prime minister, which is hanging fire as Himal Southasian goes to press. First, the background. …
नागरिक दैनिक (श्रावण ७, २०६७) बाट नयाँ सरकार चयन गर्ने वर्तमान क्रमलाई अधिकांश पर्यवेक्षकले ‘सस्तो सत्तालिप्साको खेल’ चित्रण गरे पनि वास्तवमा यो नेपाली राजनीतिको गम्भीर अभ्यास हो, जसअन्तर्गत शान्तिप्रक्रिया तथा लोकतान्त्रिक मान्यताका विषयमा मूलतः दुई पक्षबीचको प्रतिस्पर्धाबाट राज्य अघिबढ्ने बाटो पहिल्याइँदैछ। प्रधानमन्त्री को बन्ने भन्नु पछाडि दुई मुख्य मुद्दा छन्- माओवादी दलको नागरिकीकरण तथा लोकतान्त्रिक …
From The Hindu (July 2, 2010) Over the past month, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal kept his cards close to his chest, even as the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and parts of the Nepali intelligentsia accused him of being power-hungry and wanting to remain in the prime minister’s seat. On 30 June, he …
From Himal Southasian, Volume 23, Number 7 (JUL 2010) I was recently asked by a friend to write a story, ‘an imaginative, creative one’. There have been those who have remonstrated at the ease with which I am generally able to cook up a story and serve it up. But this time it did not …
हिमाल खबरपत्रिका (१–१५ असार २०६७) बाट भूलभूलैयामा हराउने हो भने एक–दुई महिनाभित्र शान्तिप्रक्रिया टुङ्गिन्छ र संविधान एक वर्षभित्रै लेखिन्छ भन्ने ठानौं, र सदनमा बहुमतप्राप्त प्रधानमन्त्रीलाई बालुवाटार त्याग्न लगाएर रमाऔं । आफ्नो राजनीतिक वर्चस्व जोगाउन जसरी पनि माधवकुमार नेपालको सरकार ढाल्न तल्लीन पुष्पकमल दाहाललाई लडाकू व्यवस्थापन र लोकतान्त्रिक संविधान निर्माणका शर्तमा बाँध्न सकिन्थ्यो, तर उपत्यकाको व्यावसायिक वृत्त, …
नागरिक दैनिक (जेठ २६, २०६७) बाट संविधानसभाको म्याद एक वर्ष थप्ने क्रममा भएको गोप्य समझदारी र लिखित तीनबुँदे सहमतिको व्याख्यामै राष्ट्रव्यापी रूपमा समय र ऊर्जा खर्च भइरहेको छ। राष्ट्रिय विचार निर्माणकर्ता विश्लेषकहरू फेरि पनि कुहिरोबीच बाटो देखाउने नभई आफैं कुहिरो उत्पादन गर्नमा व्यस्त देखिन्छन्। बौद्धिक क्षेत्रले हात बाँधेर बस्दा गोप्य समझदारी तथा लिखित सहमतिबारे सर्वसाधारण …
From Himal Southasian, Volume 23, Number 6 (JUN 2010) If instability, anarchy, mayhem and insecurity be the stuff of life, then we should be happy to be living in the Subcontinent, in many regards the most violent part of the globe today. Although it is also true that because there are so many of us …
From Outlook India (May10, 2010) From the outside, it is mesmerising to see India’s national media concentrating on cricket while turning a blind eye, relatively speaking, to earth-shaking episodes at the margins. Over the last month, readers and viewers were served up the Sania-Shoaib betrothal and the IPL controversy. Between these bookends came the Dantewada …