Wake up before hypertension slowly kills you
By Shiva Raj Mishra, Brisbane 16 May 17 Last week I had a chat with a friend who has been hypertensive since his youth. Luckily, with tremendous efforts, he has…
Opinion
457 visa changes won’t impact on wider temporary education workforce. And maybe that’s deliberate
International student visa allows you to work up to 20 hours a week. from www.shutterstock.com By Jock Collins, University of Technology Sydney 24 April 2018 The Turnbull Government’s decision to scrap…
Australian government axes 457 work visa: experts react
18 April 2017: The Turnbull government is axing the 457 visa program and replacing it with a new Temporary Skill Shortage Visa. This comes after a history of problems with…
In China and Pakistan’s coal romance, where’s the love for the climate?
By Fahad Saeed, King Abdulaziz University 31 March 2017 If you were travelling via motorway from Islamabad to Lahore during November or December 2016, you might have felt like your…
Prachanda’s China trip: Nepal got nothing, he got everything
By Bikram Timilsina, Brisbane 30 March 2016 Monday’s discussions between Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” and Chinese President Xi Jinping produced no substantial results for the Himalayan nation.…
Indians’ ‘notes ban’ compliance masks a silent crisis of legitimacy
By Esha Sen Madhavan, University of Sydney This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative between The Conversation and the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims…
Nepal’s Catch-22 over OBOR initiative and Prachanda’s upcoming China Visit
By Bikram Timilsina, Brisbane 18 March 2017 China has lately been putting considerable diplomatic pressure on Nepal to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for its participation in the Chinese President’s…
The fragility of women’s rights: how female guilds wielded power long ago
By Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia 8 March 2017 Today is International Women’s Day. The first was held in 1911, after activists Clara Zetkin and Luise Zietz pushed for a…
Saptari Sangram: Who is responsible?
By Bikram Timilsina, Brisbane 7 March 2017 Four individuals have lost their lives after police opened fire on protesters belonging to United Democratic Madheshi Front (UDMF). Dozens more reportedly sustained serious injuries…
Equality and tradition clash as Naga women in India’s northeast fight for political representation
By Lianboi Vaiphei, University of Delhi 5 March 2016 Around the world, tradition often opposes equality. But when it comes to the question of gender equality, such situations can become…
Letter to a rockstar of hopes, Rabindra Mishra
LETTER from RAM KHATRY Dear Rabindra Mishra, Greetings from Australia! I hope this letter finds you well. I am not entirely sure if a celebrity media person of your calibre is…
Consistency disorder in Dr Baburam Bhattarai
By Bikram Timilsina, Brisbane 28 February 2017 Consistency in thoughts and expression is very crucial in politics; it is the very edifice on which a leader’s statesmanship is built. Consistency…
The ghosts of a literary Indian hill-station that haunt the writers of the present
By Arup K Chatterjee, O.P. Jindal Global University 21 February 2016 “All hill-stations have their share of ghost stories” writes journalist Sheela Reddy. “But the Doon must be the only…
Aung San Suu Kyi has no excuse for staying silent on the Rohingya crisis
By Tom Smith, University of Portsmouth 17 February 2017 Aung San Suu Kyi, the famed and much fawned-over former opposition leader of Myanmar, cannot be immune to criticism. Undoubtedly a force…
Letter to a consultant about Sister Shristi
LETTER from RAM KHATRY Dear Consultant, I hope you are well, physically at least. However, I also hope that this letter finds you as much heart-broken as I currently am…
Life in limbo: the Rohingya refugees trapped between Myanmar and Banglades
By Ashraful Azad, University of Chittagong 13 February 2017 Violence against the Rohingyas, an ethnic Muslim minority in Myanmar, has reached a new high according to a report published by…
More than half the world’s most important natural sites are under threat: it’s time to protect them
31 January 2017: Would we knock down the pyramids or flatten the Acropolis to make way for housing estates, roads or farms? You would hope not. Such an indictment would…
What next for the anti-Trump protesters?
By Clive Hamilton, Charles Sturt University 28 January 2017 There are two possible outcomes from the huge anti-Trump marches the day after the new president’s inauguration. Perhaps, having made their…
A new world order under President Donald Trump
By Gaurab Shumsher Thapa, Kathmamdu 25 January 2017 Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States on 20 January 2017. Two years ago, when he…
India has been a post-truth society for years (and maybe the West has too)
By Ranjit Goswami, Vice-Chancellor, RK University 24 January 2017 Major social change does not happen within the space of a year. Yet, to a large number of observers around the…
