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April 22, 2015 •
Features, Labor, Print, Theme •
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A small dream for India’s children...
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February 24, 2015 •
Blogs, Online Content, The Globalist Notebook •
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By Nooreen Reza In the late 2000s, the celebrated American diplomat Richard Holbrooke popularized the term “Af-Pak” to refer to the evolving US approach to counterterrorism across the “ill-defined,” in his words,...
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October 6, 2013 •
Online Exclusives, Print •
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By Payal Marathe I never expected to have much in common with a pageant queen. But since Nina Davuluri’s name has blown up in social media in the past few weeks, I’m realizing I might be more similar to Miss America 2013 than I...
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September 25, 2012 •
Blogs, Online Content, The World at Yale •
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by Chaitanya Singhania This Sunday afternoon, the South Asian Studies Council hosted a panel discussion with two prominent Indian politicians, Arun Jaitley and Nand Kishore Singh. Jaitley, a member of India’s chief right-wing Hindu...
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December 22, 2011 •
Features, Print •
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Tribal codes may hold the keys to Afghanistan’s future....
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August 3, 2011 •
Blogs, Summer 2011 Blog, Summer 2011 Blog, Theme •
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by Adrian Lo: What do people do if they cannot return home, yet have no future in their current settlements? This is a question facing millions of refugees around the world, yet for Burmese refugees along the Thai border, this has become...
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July 7, 2011 •
Blogs, Summer 2011 Blog, Summer 2011 Blog, Theme •
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by Sanjena Sathian: I thought getting to Nepal was rough. I switched planes four times, airlines twice, and covered three continents. I was in transit for 52 hours. Getting around in Nepal, in comparison, is much harder. To get to Ilam, I...
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June 29, 2011 •
Blogs, Summer 2011 Blog, Summer 2011 Blog, Theme, Uncategorized •
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by Sanjena Sathian: I made a research trip last weekend out of the hilly district of Ilam where I’ve been living to the flat, agricultural expanse of Nepal known as the terai. I went to a city called Dharan, the sixth-biggest in Nepal....
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June 22, 2011 •
Blogs, Summer 2011 Blog, Summer 2011 Blog, Theme, Uncategorized •
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by Sanjena Sathian: After a week here in Ilam, a rural district in the hilly tea-growing east of Nepal. I’ve composed a packing list for anyone who might be interested in venturing out here one day. It’s not a very touristy destination...
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June 21, 2011 •
Blogs, Summer 2011 Blog, Summer 2011 Blog, Theme, Uncategorized •
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by Uzra Khan: This past week has been a whirlwind of writing and reporting. Things I have been sent to cover in the past week include a journalists’ hunger strike in the city in opposition to slow investigation into the murder of a...
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