HOT OFF THE PRESS:
Nepal's Maoists in limbo (Foreign Policy magazine)
Long stalemate after Maoist victory disrupts life in Nepal (The Washington Post)
Back to the Afghan Future - The return of the Gurkhas (The Weekly Standard)
High Noon in Helmand - British Gurkhas face their toughest battle in Afghanistan (The Kathmandu Post)
LATEST STORIES
- Policing Afghanistan - Why things won't improve without more support for the Afghan police (The Atlantic)
- Trapped in Tragedy - Nepali workers in Afghanistan (The Week, Republica, Kathmandu)
- The National Bread of Afghanistan (theAtlantic.com)
- National Bread of Afghanistan - Photo Slide Show (theAtlantic.com)
- The Other War, Like No Other (The Week, Republica, Kathmandu)
- Helmand: A Nepalese View (theAtlantic.com)
- Lampson courts both Cowboys & Indians (National Journal Online)
- Six years later, a murderer feels nothing (Won best story in Reporting & Writing course at Columbia J-school)
- Global Warming in the media: U.S. and Nepali coverage (Won first prize from Foreign Press Association)
To read my blog posts from Afghanistan, please visit DISPATCHES FROM AFGHANISTAN.
OTHER STORIES (Click on the headlines below to read the full article.)
Forbes.com
On most American holidays, people like to gather around a table, enjoy food and family, and take some quiet time to reflect upon their blessings. But not the Fourth of July. In order to celebrate America’s independence, we like to blow stuff up.
I also reported for the annual “Best cities for Singles” series.
For a segment called “The Future,” I interviewed:
Ed Cornish, former president of World Future Society;
David Brin, a scientist;
Frank Feather, global business strategist;
Bob Rogers, creative arts expert;
Esther Dyson, active investor.
Nepali Times
Home Away from Home (PDF)
Tika Maya Rai thought hard and looked around her tiny candy shop in the Bhutani refugee camp in Beldangi one recent chilly evening. “No, I don’t want to go to the United States or any foreign country,” she finally said. Until a few months ago, sentiments such as Rai’s—home, repatriation, being a good Bhutani—were the only thing you’d hear when visiting the camps or speaking with the refugee leadership in Kathmandu.
SAJAForum
Imran Khan talks about Musharaff, upcoming elections
Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan spoke to a full house of about 250 New Yorkers this morning at a joint Asia Society-SAJA event.
Maldives' initiative to fight climate change
Although Maldives was the first country to sign the Kyoto Protocol, that has not helped this tiny string of islands reduce the threats of climate change. And it hasn't discouraged them. Instead, they have set an example.
Smoking threatens millions in India
A new study on smokling and death in India, published by the New England Journal of Medicine, has suddenly made headlines in the world media.
Death toll increases in Bangladesh cyclone
Bangladesh is recovering from yet another natural catastrophe as Cyclone Sidr killed over thousands of people, brought down thousands of homes and forced over 650,000 people to evacuate from their houses in the southwest coast.
Gap clothing chain withdraws garments made using Indian child labor
American clothing chain Gap has announced that it would withdraw clothes made using forced child labor in India. The announcement came after the publication of an investigative article by Dan McDougall in the UK-based Observer.
Nepali Leftists head for blogging
Thank Nepal’s political problems for a surge in lefty blogging. Two of the most popular blogs, at least among the diaspora, are Samudaya and Democracy for Nepal.
Q & A session with Richard Boucher
Speaking with the Wall St. Journal’s Nikhil Deogun at today’s Newsmaker Q&A, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher says the civil nuclear program with India is gaining progress and hopefully will reach the Senate for decision.
“Other channels show the missiles being fired; we show them landing,” said Riz Khan about Al-Jazeera’s commitment to news from the Middle East. Khan, a trailblazing South Asian journalist who recently joined Al-Jazeera International added, “When I told George H. W. Bush that I left CNN to help Al-Jazeera launch their channel in English, his eyebrows went up.”
Keynote speech by Associated Press CEO Tom Curley
Associated Press president and CEO Tom Curley urged today’s young journalists to take risks, and be willing to face the truth. He spoke at the SAJA Convention banquet and awards reception, Saturday evening in Lerner Auditorium at Columbia University.