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Bhaktapur: ruins of the past
TEXT BY LORA TOMAS PHOTOGRAPHS BY RUDRA RAKSHIT Opposite the entrance to Taleju Temple is a pile of rubble that seems to be held in place by a piece of green string. Oddly, the National Art Gallery is...
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Homeless in Kathmandu
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALIA ALLANA A cool breeze followed Wessam as he walked out of the Western Union office near the Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu. He bought four cream-filled doughnuts for his...
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TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPH BY ALIA ALLANA Jasvinder Singh, inspector and team commander of India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) stationed at Gangapu in Kathmandu never thought of himself as a...
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The struggle to save Ichok
TEXT BY ALIA ALLANA PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALIA ALLANA, MARK HARRIS & REBECA OCACIZ Halfway up the hill to Ichok in Nepal’s battered Sindhupalchok district, a group of drunken Nepali men jumped aboard the...
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The one who got away
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALIA ALLANA On the night of June 11, 2014, Harjit Masih (24), of Kala Afghana village in Punjab was abducted along with 39 other Indian workers from Mosul amid the Islamic State...
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Portrait of a political operator
BY GOVIND KRISHNAN V PHOTOGRAPHS BY HARSHA VADLAMANI In September 2010, Kalvakuntala Chandrashekar Rao was almost finished. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the party he founded for a separate...
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BY ALIA ALLANA Late on the evening of August 31, 2014, in Kolkata, four young men from Telangana made their way down from the second floor to the lobby of Hotel Krishna in New Market, where they had...
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Myanmar’s tryst with democracy
Aung San Suu Kyi’s victory in the elections paves the way for the country’s first democratic government which has to work under the eye of the all-powerful military. TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALIA ALLANA...
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Who let the water into my city?
BY G K RAO INFOGRAPHIC BY KARTHIKEYAN R PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY DINAMALAR The deluge has washed over Chennai and the waters have receded, leaving behind a weary waste of household wreckage wherever the...
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In the time of the great water
BY SAURAV KUMAR PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY DINAMALAR The MTC bus driver, one hand clutching his jaw and the other sitting dead on the steering wheel, was blinking hard and fast like bursts from a machine gun...
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Love and longing in Yarmouk
BY ALIA ALLANA PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY UNRWA.ORG “I’ll call you,” he said, as he turned his back to leave for Yarmouk refugee camp, almost certain that they won’t speak. That they can’t speak. Years of...
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BY ALIA ALLANA V. P. Haran served as India’s Ambassador to Syria from 2009 until 2012. He speaks to Fountain Ink on how sections of the media exaggerated the uprising as well as signs that al-Qaeda was...
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BY ALIA ALLANA The Russians started 2006 in Syria with a bang, really big ones. Hours into the new year they launched a series of airstrikes over the country. Proud proclamations were sounded from all...
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BY ALIA ALLANA In an exclusive interview to Fountain Ink, Syria’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister Walid al-Moualem (left, above photograph) speaks about the upcoming Geneva Conference, the...
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Nepal: The siege within
TEXT BY ARPIT PARASHAR PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY NAGRIK IIt is an unusually sunny winter morning in Birgunj, a border town in Nepal, minutes away from Bihar. The people are out in greater numbers on the...
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Arunachal’s Great Hydro Game
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANKUSH SAIKIA Some 22 kilometres upstream of the Siang from the town of Pasighat in eastern Arunachal is the site of the proposed 2,700 megawatt(MW) Lower Siang hydroelectric...
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When Ajith won the bet of his life
BY GOVIND KRISHNAN V On September 14, 2015, Marco Drago, a 33-year-old Italian post-doctoral researcher and writer of fantasy novels, was in his office at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hanover,...
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Ten reasons ScoopWhoop is the new big media
BY ALIA ALLANA Raj Das’s Casio digital watch beeped twice. It was 9 p.m. and he got up from a garden bench and walked inside the farmhouse that is the office of ScoopWhoop Media Pvt. Ltd, a digital...
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Old ways of the old town
BY MARCEL KOLACEK Three days of photographing the Old City in Jerusalem leave you amazed at the mixture of religions and cultures. But increasingly, I wanted to see between the walls, the “real...
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The elephant men of Odisha
BY PRERNA SINGH BINDRA Raha, Raha, Raha!” urges Panchanan Nayak. The hoarse, urgent whisper from the short, wiry man makes the eight-foot tall elephant, the matriarch of the herd stop in her tracks....
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