Nepal, Bangladesh, UK, US, Australia and Sri Lanka have called for the release of Himal editor and prominent Nepali journalist Kanak Mani Dixit who was arrested yesterday in Katmandu by anti-graft officials.
Towards this end, the MNO took recourse to the strategies of promotion of language, emphasis on Buddhism (to highlight a non-Hindu identity), reinterpretation of dominant Nepali social customs and festivals, like Dashin and Tihar, and producing their own calendar. The question of ethnic ...
Look forward to the discussion and inputs from renowned photographerShahidul Alam, Sri Lankan human-rights advocateAmbika Satkunanathan; Nepali journalist and democracy activistKanak Mani Dixit; and Bhutanese human-rights activistSuraj Budathoki. Plus a cultural performance from Indian economist and musi...
I like how the Nepali journalist Kanak Mani Dixit refers to the Indian sub-continent: Southasia. One word. Kanak explains why, in the respected magazineHimal Southasianthat he edits, that I am proud to be editorially associated with since its launch in 1997. As a magazine “seeking to rest...
Propelled to celebrity status by her role in the recent breakthrough on gravitational waves predicted by Einstein, the Pakistani-American astrophysicist at MIT added, “TCF is fantastic – give generously”. Alamdar Road, Quetta (file photo): Shia Hazara protestors with coffins of those killed in...
Spinal Beetle with its Nepali eyes arrives in Pakistan Here’s the latest report of the Southasian journey undertaken recently by my friend, civil rights activist, writer and journalist (editor Himal Southasian) Kanak Mani Dixit, his wife Shanta (a teacher) and son Eelum (an actor, and yes...
The online event also commemorates the global International Peace Day, September 21. Peacetalks symposium: Raza Rumi, Pritpal Singh, Amitabh Pal, Nyla Ali Khan. Photo by Beena Sarwar By Beena Sarwar Born in the Rawalpindi area in 1943, Suresh Bakshi was about four years oldwhen his family...
These last two factors contribute to my ‘favourite’ conference being one that took place in Kathmandu in early 1996. The man behind it wasKanak Mani Dixit, whom I had met at an earlier South Asia conference about water resources organised by Panos some years ago. Kanak had decided to turn...
Instead of condoling with the families of those killed, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (who is believed to have a vested interest in privatising the airline), hassuspended the PIA employees’ right to protestunder the Essential Services Act, and threatened the them with loss of job and incarceratio...
29 August 2021:“If the government becomes the monster that it can be, then the belly of the beast contains the people in jail”, said Nepali journalistKanak Mani Dixit,speaking at a regional session on the rights of the incarcerated in South Asia, particularly in light of the ongoing Covi...