![]() ![]() He played a significant role in the development of press and media in Nepal in the years after the establishment of democracy in 1990 and also involved himself in the Nepali language media. At that time, he helped bring four-colour printing to Nepal, and also joined the effort at archiving. ![]() He worked for eight years at the United Nations Secretariat in New York, before deciding to return to Nepal in 1990. He is also the publisher of the Nepali language political newsweekly Himal Khabarpatrika.Ģ After a Bachelor of Arts degree in Katmandu and a Bachelor of Law in Delhi, he went to Columbia University where he studied international relations, then journalism (Master’s Degree in both, in 1982). He founded the bimonthly regional magazine Himal in 1987, which became Himal Southasian when he enlarged the area it covered, as he says, ‘from Afghanistan to Burma and from Tibet to the Maldives.’ The magazine offers informed critical commentary on social and cultural issues in South Asia. 1 Kanak Mani Dixit is an intellectual from Nepal, a journalist since his high school days in the early 1970s in Lalitpur (Kathmandu Valley) and a well-known publisher, editor and writer. ![]()
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