With thousands of Nepali migrant workers forced to return home because of COVID-19, the country is facing serious challenges COVID-19 is forcing an unprecedented level of reverse migration of Nepali migrant workers from around the world. The underlining problems related to the dependence on temporary labor migration and remittances is […]
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Darshan: an intimate experience of transformation
A new documentary on the sacred art of South Asia provides a message of hope in divisive times. “Art is life and life is art,” says Lok Chitrakar, a Nepali folk artist and teacher whose smile lights up his face as he talks to the camera. What Chitrakar is trying […]
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US and China are both raising the military stakes in the South China Sea
Just when Trump might be looking for a diversion. In the run-up to November’s election, Donald Trump’s position looks increasingly fraught as his poll ratings slip. If he does become more desperate he may look for a foreign diversion, perhaps a useful little war in a far-off place with not […]