Nishant Dahiya appears in the following:
Moscow appeals court upholds Brittney Griner's 9-year sentence
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Putin orders martial law in four Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
U.S. Announces Support For Waiving Intellectual Property Rights For COVID-19 Vaccines
Wednesday, May 05, 2021
State Department Orders Departure Of Nonessential Personnel From Kabul Embassy
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
What Trump's Declassified Asia Strategy May Mean For U.S.-China Relations Under Biden
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Trio Of Books Shows A Southeast Asia Caught Between World Powers
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Timeline: The Unraveling Of U.S.-China Relations
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
A Look At Why 'Crime Pays' In Indian Politics
Saturday, February 11, 2017
How The U.S. War In Laos Was Key To The 'Birth Of A Military CIA'
Monday, January 30, 2017
Trump And China: Intentionally Provocative Or Unprepared?
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Dozens Killed In Bombing Near Afghan Parliament
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Weeping For All That Is Lost: A Harsh Migration Out Of India
Saturday, April 30, 2016
An Ancient Route Rolls On: Questions For Author Of 'The Silk Roads'
Friday, April 08, 2016
'Hunters' Is A Dark, Elegant Tale Of East And West
Saturday, January 16, 2016
There's a familiar kind of book. A white man — specifically a Briton — in Asia. You can already sense him; aloof, condescending, assured. The world is his playground and he's out to play. That kind of book has already been written.
Lawrence Osborne's Hunters in the Dark is not ...
#NPRreads: Climate Scientists In The Crosshairs And China's Economy
Friday, July 17, 2015
#NPRreads is a weekly feature on Twitter and on The Two-Way. The premise is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers throughout our newsroom share pieces that have kept them reading. They share tidbits using the #NPRreads hashtag — and on Fridays, we highlight some of the best stories.
This week, ...
A Cop-Turned-Crime-Writer's Unique Portrait Of Pakistan
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Omar Shahid Hamid started off as a cop, and his decision to become one was deeply personal: When he was still in his teens, his father, a senior civil servant in Pakistan, was assassinated. "In the subsequent police investigation," he tells me via email, "I saw close up the good ...
A Vivid Portrait Of Tudor Turmoil In 'Lamentation'
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
We start with a pyre: A young woman and three men are to burn, condemned as heretics. In vivid, often graphic prose, C.J. Sansom uses this horrific scene to set the stage for Lamentation, the sixth installment of his Matthew Shardlake mysteries, set in Tudor England. It's 1546; the dying ...
'Happy' Isn't So Happy, But It Packs A Punch
Sunday, February 01, 2015
Every now and then, you find a book that's thinly plotted and has a slightly confusing, almost infuriating structure — but it's impossible to put down. The French writer Yasmina Reza has achieved exactly that with Happy are the Happy, a collection of twenty short, interconnected stories that crackle with ...
Dark, Disturbing And Playful, 'Seventh Day' Takes On Modern China
Monday, January 19, 2015
In a previous collection of short stories, Boy in The Twilight, Yu Hua describes a simpleton (some might call him dim-witted) who cannot even remember his own name: His parents are dead, he has no wife and child — nor even the prospect of any — and at one point, ...
'Recasting' India's Economic Policy For The Free Market
Saturday, November 22, 2014
It takes almost a month to get permission to start a business in India — a feature of the country's four-decade experiment with centralized, state-controlled economic planning.
India began moving away from its old policies and opening up to outside investment in the early '90s — but that movement towards ...