Articles by Ajaya Dixit
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July 1995 - Briefs
Mapping Nepal's water recources The changed map of Nepal, if the proposed 30 dam/ reservoir projects were to be built The dark blue patches indicate the approximate location and size of the proposed reservoirs. |
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March 2000 - Review
Caution: Development Ahead Three books on behalf of those waylaid by certain notions of the state and the progress, which see it as the monopoly sector playground of the market. |
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September 1998 - Analysis
Who's Afraid of Farakka's Accord? Who ´won´ and who ´lost´ in December´s Indo-Bangla agreement on sharing the waters of the Ganga? The answer is hard to find in the complicated calculations that appear to have gone into the treaty. However, we will know soon enough, as the driest months up ahead reduce the river´s flow at Farakka´s sluices. |
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April 2001 -
How not to do a South Asian Treaty... A ‘forensic’ deconstruction of the Mahakali Treaty of 1996 between Nepal and India reveals the larger neighbour as bulldozer and the smaller one as hapless and internally divided. Just how not to do an agreement for the sharing of a common resource... On 29 January 1996, after three days of deliberations in Kathmandu, India’s external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee and Nepal’s foreign minister Prakash Chandra Lohani initialled the Mahakali Treaty, known formally as the Treaty between His Majesty’s Government of Nepal and the Government of India Concerning the Integrated Development of the Mahakali River Including Sarada Barrage, Tanakpur Barrage and Pancheswar Project. Immediately, Nepali politicians scrambled to take credit for the treaty. From the former Speaker of Parliament to the General Secretary of the Nepal Communist Party (United Marxist-Leninist), then in opposition, from hard-line Panchayat politicos of yesteryears to hard-boiled bureaucrats, all rushed to claim a share in the glory. But in less than a year, the treaty had fallen into disrepute, and, today, except for those whose names have been directly involved in the preparation of the document, there is scarcely a defender of the Mahakali treaty. |
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January 1999 - Review
If you liked the bomb, here is the book Because Kalam's solution is a hammer , all problems have been reduced to nails. Everyone has a legitimate right to frame their own vision about the world and society. But when a vision construed through personal predilection is presented as ideology, problems emerge. This is even more so when a missile scientist prescribes his worldview as a socio-political panacea. |
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Featured Articles
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People versus wildlife 17 May 2013
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Reassessing wildlife conservation policies in India.
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After the flood 7 May 2013
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The new realities of life for villagers in Hunza Valley who lost their homes and lands to a natural lake following a 2010...
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Disappearing foods 25 April 2013
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A collection of recipes that are fading from the Southasian palette.
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Eat, drink, write 23 April 2013
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A food writer dishes on the ins and outs of her profession.
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Brideprice 22 April 2013
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A new translation of Manik Bandopadhyay's ‘Namuna’ by Madhusree Mukerjee.
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Among the believers 19 April 2013
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An account from Varanasi, where bhang and thandai struggle to survive the onslaught of LSD and Coca-Cola.
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Behind the crystals 18 April 2013
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Capturing the lives of Marakkanam’s salt pan workers
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In search of food sovereignty 17 April 2013
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Shifting the debate on the Public Distribution System.
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Farms, Feasts, Famines: web-exclusive package 17 April 2013
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Missing connections 8 April 2013
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Girja Kumar’s book on the Indus and the cultures tied to it obscures a tremendous wealth of interconnected histories and...
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No place for picnics 4 April 2013
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Kashmiri women tell their stories of the conflict.
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'I bowled left-arm chinaman' 28 March 2013
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Shehan Karunatilaka speaks about winning awards, spin bowling, italics in fiction, and much more.
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Romila Thapar addresses invitees at the Southasian relaunch of Himal Southasian, IIC, New Delhi, January 2013. |
The archive: 25 years of Southasia
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China, Southasia and India
On May 19 2013, newly appointed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in New Delhi for a series of meetings with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The visit is Keqiang's first outside of China since assuming power in March.
From our archive: Purna Basnet discusses Chinese engagement in Nepal vis-a-vis security issues in Tibet and broader geo-strategic plans in Southasia (April 2011).
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Fatima Chowdury relates the story of Calcutta's Indian Chinese community through the lens of political and economic upheavals in Southasia and China (May 2009).
Simon Long notes the importance of the Sino-Indian relationship for the rest of Southasia (September 2006).
J.N Dixit ruminates on the strategic concerns of the 'Middle Kingdom' in the wake of India's 1998 nuclear tests (June 1998).
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