A Tamil short story by G Nagarajan first published in Kannadasan magazine in 1968, translated by Ashik Kahina
Set in Toronto’s Tibetan community, Kunsang Kyirong’s ‘100 Sunset’ captures raw realities of diasporic life in sharp contrast to the false glamour migrants project to audiences back home
A Sinhala short story from Piyal Kariyawasam’s 2008 collection ‘Aachari seeya dutu didulana andakaraya’, translated by Gaya Nagahawatta
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As men migrate for work, Nepal’s women are increasingly taking up agriculture – but society, policies and support systems are slow to catch up
Nepal’s civil war ended two decades ago, but the reckoning with the Maoists’ destruction of heritage and culture has barely begun
Thant Myint-U’s new book on his grandfather, the first non-white secretary-general of the UN, revisits an era when the institution inspired expectations of internationalist diplomatic leadership that have since faded away
