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Development Nepal: Call for contributions

 

We are now collecting Nepal-related research articles for publication in Development Nepal.  This could be your term-papers, your bachelors, masters or PhD thesis, or any other research you might have carried out independently.  We also welcome any experience that you want to share as a development practitioner.  Book reviews, and interviews with development practitioners and researchers that relate to Development in Nepal are welcome, too.

 

While there is no monetary incentive for contributions, we believe the website will provide a good exposure and readership to those aspiring to go into development practice, research or public policy in the future.  We understand there are other websites that do similar things; however we plan to do it focusing more on Development related research. Send in your contributions to editors@nepaldevelopment.com .

 

Also, one of our goals is also to translate academic/research papers into jargon-free (as far as possible) summaries for out-of-the-field individuals (and hopefully policymakers) to read. We can work with you towards summarizing your work for the benefit of a larger audience.  If you have any papers that you have recently worked on and would want to summarize, we request you to email it to editors@nepaldevelopment.com or yubraj@gmail.com.  Of course, we will send you a copy of the summaries before we publish them and might seek your help in summarizing your research papers.

 

Please feel free to pass on this message to anyone you know who had done Nepal-related research. There is no restriction on topics for now, but we might eventually set a limit depending upon our time availability.

Irreparable Loss

 

We mourn the demise of distinguished Nepal scholars and development professionals in a helicopter crash in Taplejung district of Nepal on September 23, 2006.  For Nepal’s reviving development sector, this loss has been most unfortunate.  

 

Our beloved friend Hemraj Bhandari—a past associate (2004-2005) of Development Nepal  was also in the ill fated  helicopter. Hemraj conducted several interviews with development practitioners in Nepal, and compiled student researches for publication in Development Nepal.  Read an interview conducted by Hemraj:    <http://www.nepaldevelopment.com/Interview_JShahi.htm.>. When we met Hemraj in July this year, he had enthusiastically shared his Masters research plans—and his experience working in Nepal Television.  Little did we know that the visit would be the last one.   May God grant the ability to bear this irreparable loss to the bereaved family.  May his soul rest in peace.