Kanak Mani Dixit

Kanak Mani Dixit is editor of Himal Southasian regional magazine and publisher of the Nepali-language Himal Khabarpatrika newsmagazine. He was actively involved in resisting King Gyanendra's takeover and was detained many times, the latest for eighteen days during the People's Movement of 2006.

Currently

  • People Power In Nepal

    May 5, 2006

    Kanak Mani Dixit writes that the removal of the contemptuous Nepali regime was a type of "people power" absent from Asia and the rest of world for many years, opening dialogue with the Maoist rebels and creating the conditions for peace.

2003

  • Hour of Media Shame

    April 11, 2003

    One casualty of the war on Iraq has been the image of the Western media.

2002

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