Nation Topics - Himalayan | The Nation

India’s brutal crackdown against unarmed protesters adds to the long local memory of extrajudicial killings, torture and mass repression. In the battle of stone versus bullet, the “Gen Next” of Kashmir feel they have a moral advantage over the might of the Indian state.

At Bolivia's climate summit, the prevailing sentiment was rage against helplessness.

A portrait of a can-do nation turning into a can't-do one.

Just as tourism returns to the nascent Himalayan democracy, new political discord could derail economic recovery and a constitution.

The planet's future depends largely on the fate of China's nascent wind sector.

How we decide to manage water will determine whether our future is peaceful or perilous.

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, blasphemes not only Islam and Hinduism, but Thatcherism and the advertising industry. He's unkind, too, to V.S. Naipaul. For this they want to kill him?

The resignation of Pervez Musharraf and a looming election in India offer hope that with the right leadership, the sixty-year faceoff over Kashmir might finally be resolved.

Run like hell! Floods, droughts and food collapses are only a few of the dire consequences of climate change outlined by a new report. Will life soon resemble a never-ending Hollywood blockbuster disaster movie?