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May 31, 2005, Towards Freedom In the long struggle between Iraq and the US, Iraqi women have been the most harmed of that nation’s beleaguered masses. Like men,…
Originally published in Ceramics Monthly, Illustrated. March, 1993. Tibet’s otherwise bleak, brown land scape is sometimes broken by rust-colored hillocks. Located just beyond the mud brick walls of…
Originally published in The Tibet Journal, Vol XII, no 4. Dharamsala. 1987 Sociology of Tibet can begin with a study of its women and its men. As yet,…
Originally published in KAILASH, A Journal of Himalayan Studies, Vol IV. 2. 1976
July 28, 2018 on Asia-Pacific Research They appear a hapless collection of desperate village lads lured by false promises, making their way to a hostile place fraught with…
आश्विन २०, २०७५ काठमाडौँ — सन १९८० ताका नेपालमा तानाशाही शासन थियो । त्यसैले योगमायाको सेरोफेरोका घटनामा चासो राख्नु एउटा खतरा मोल्नु नै थियो । नेपालभरि नै असहमत व्यक्तित्वको रूपमा…
August 31, 2018 on Counterpunch.org When I found myself well into my career as an anthropologist specializing in Himalayan peoples, I came across an historical episode concerning two…
January 4, 2019 on Counterpunch.org Three sturdy trekkers step out of a van and hoist top-heavy blue, green and orange rucksacks onto their backs. The two young women…
January 16, 2019 on Counterpunch.org “Every family has someone outside.” Conversations about Nepal’sdysfunctional economy invariably lead to its four million citizens, mainly young men, working abroad. (Some say…
Sacred Assemblies in Baghdad
April 26, 2018, Counterpunch.org If there’s any argument against our excessive reliance on digital platforms to maintain social fabric, it is surely found inside Iraq today. Forced into…