April 10 is the fifth anniversary of the historical Constituent Assembly (CA) elections in Nepal. The elected CA failed to draft a new constitution nationally agreed upon as a tool to manage the 10-year Maoist insurgency that had confined the deep-rooted ruling elites and its state apparatuses to its Kathmandu premises. Following a royal coup […]
No broken traffic light
Before Partition, political dissent often manifested itself in violence towards traffic lights. Apparently, during the halcyon days of the Pakistan Movement it was considered routine to attack and destroy traffic signals at the slightest of provocation. These British introductions represented, it seems, enough of the Colonial establishment to justify, in the eyes of those passionate […]
May-29 Tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa
According to Siddhartha the Buddha, life comes into existence when mind and matter combine. His meaning was that the interaction of mind and matter produces energy that moves things and people. Nepal’s Sherpas, the original mountain citizens, live at the foothills of the Mount Everest in the North of the country. Their mind frequently interacts […]
Q & A with Mexican Director and DP Michelle Castro!
Mexican filmmaker Michelle Castro is one of those people who, after hearing about his journey as a director and cinematographer, leads us to wonder whether he is some kind of super human creative force. The amount of success he has achieved in the international entertainment industry over the last decade is startling. From directing music […]
Indology Is The Pursuit Of A Major Component Of Human Knowledge: President
Prof. Emeritus Heinrich Receives ‘Distinguished Indologist’ Award New Delhi (PIB-GR-TYP-BIN): The President of India Mr. Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a three day World Indology Conference at Rashtrapati Bhavan on November 21. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that he would like to pay tribute to all Indologists and scholars of Indian history, art and culture, […]
3 Igbo Nigerians Make Time 100 Most Influential List 2015
Chimamanda Adichie Oby Ezekwesili Chris Ofili Chimamanda Adichie ‘s commentary by TIME’s deputy managing editor Radhika Jones : “It’s the rare novelist who in the space of a year finds her words sampled by Beyoncé, optioned by Lupita Nyong’o and honored with the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. But the Nigerian writer […]
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