Dhaka’s crumbling caravan serais
Neglected and uncared for, the two caravan serais of Dhaka are en route destruction. Locally known as ‘katras’ (boro katra and chhoto katra), these two structures were built in...
Ways in which China is drawing Nepal into its embrace
There is an apocryphal story that theNepalese believe that they have two elder brothers – the first, an interfering, censorial and patronizing one, namely India, and the second, a...