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On June 14, for the second year in a row, the far-right Hindu nationalist group Hindu Sena will throw a birthday party for US President Donald Trump. Last year’s party was small but lavish, with a seven-kilogram birthday cake, countless
In 2007, around the time I started getting interested in food and wine and began writing the occasional restaurant review, I read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. A decade and change later, I don’t remember much about the book, aside from
On March 18, Monti Chakma and Doyasona Chakma were abducted by a group of masked assailants in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), the rugged highlands that form Bangladesh’s southeastern border with Myanmar and India. The women are leaders of the
The first thought that went through Sanu Maya Gurung’s mind was simple: “I don’t want to die at work.” It was April 25, 2015, and Ms Gurung, 32, was at her tailoring store in the village of Chautara in Nepal’s
On the edge of Rishikesh, in the foothills of the Himalayas, lies an overgrown ashram reminiscent of the great ruins of the Mayans. Fifty years ago this year, the Beatles arrived at this unlikely location at the invitation of the
The young boy sitting across from me in the tuk-tuk smiles politely and asks me my name. I hate to be a cheapskate, put out by the loss of a couple of dollars, especially when everything here is so cheap.
On a barren hilltop in the Balukhali refugee camp, not far from the border he crossed seven months ago, Muhammad Eleas has a panoramic view of what many consider a disaster waiting to happen. “When the rain comes,” he says,
Mouly Surya’s Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts opens on a wide shot of a windswept hillscape. A lone motorcyclist rides towards the camera as an equally lonesome trumpet sounds its lament on the soundtrack. Only the traditional drum keeping