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Kunda Dixit
Kunda Dixit is a Nepali journalist with wide experience reporting from around the world on a range of issues including conflict, environment and development issues. He started out as a news reporter for the BBC in Hew York, then became the Asia-Pacific Director of the Inter Press Service news agency. He returned to Nepal in 1996 to head the South Asian office of Panos Institute in Kathmandu. He is now the publisher and editor of the Himal Media Group which publishes Nepali Times, a weekly English language paper and Himal, a monthly English magazine for South. Asia. This article was adapted from a presentation he made at the media and racism work shop organised by Isis-International Manila in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific NGO Networking Meeting in preparation for the WCAR held in Kathmandu, Nepal from 27 to 29 April 2001.