The blockade is over but Nepal’s young Madhesis are determined to keep their agitation alive
Photo Credit: Anumeha Yadav 19.1K Total Views Madhesi protestors have lifted the four-month blockade of the India-Nepal open international border at Birgunj. On February 5, the first trucks rolled across…
At 60, ‘The Room on the Roof’ is back with gorgeous illustrations
10.7K Total Views Dylan Thomas, in his poem Fern Hill, says, “Time held me green and dying / Though I sang in my chains like the sea.” When I revisited…
First India-SL Twenty20: Favourites shocked by spirited Lankans on a spicy pitch
Photo Credit: Nitin Lawate / IANS 6K Total Views There is a delicious irony hidden here somewhere – after South Africa put up a humongous 438 in the last One…
The world’s forests will collapse if we don’t learn to say ‘no’
Photo Credit: internationalrivers/flickr 15.7K Total Views An alarming new study has shown that the world’s forests are not only disappearing rapidly, but that areas of “core forest” — remote interior…