Davinder Kumar

Early morning last Saturday, when most of us were fast asleep and the rest still rising from slumber, a young Bangladeshi woman quietly made history. At 9.30 am Nepal time, Nishat Mazumder conquered Everest. The 31-year-old became the first woman from Bangladesh to reach the highest point on the planet.

They have no Twitter army, no righteous war being waged for their rescue. They are visible, they are out there on the streets. From ruthless lanes of Dhaka to dangerous dark alleys of Rio, tens of millions of children the world over are daily fighting hunger, violence and abuse just...

The last few days I have spent scouring the tsunami-devastated coastline of Japan's north-east. From Ishinomaki to Onagawa, Shichigahama to Kesennuma, the landscape has been drastically altered as Japan presses on with the world's costliest disaster recovery till date.

Town after town affected by...

I spend my time looking for ditches these days. Fresh out of hostile environment training for aid workers I know where to dive in to save my life if caught in a sudden exchange of fire.

This is just the start. I can Delta Kilo myself...

Besides Hispaniola itself- the second largest island in the Caribbean, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share one more thing in common - their seismic fault lines.

The two nations have a long history of earthquakes in addition to their vulnerability to hurricanes and cyclones.
As Haiti...

Home Secretary Theresa May is a politician. It is understandable that her wish to see the Human Rights Act scrapped serves a large audience within her political party as well a significant constituency outside, among the general public.

Although brazen as it may appear in its language and intent,...

The UN General Assembly sessions, like listings at bookmakers' parlour, have favourites, and on occasions, even clear winners. As a scribe, for instance, you have a fair idea that Israel-Palestine issue will incite passions and dominate the agenda. From leaders with well-rehearsed speeches to news channels on a...

In many fortunate societies the state plays the role of both protector and provider. Even in the most corrupt and calamitous nations, people have the state to turn to as the last resort. The state, howsoever feeble and fragmented, instils a sense of commonality for its people, in suffering and...

They are out there, always, often the first people to reach. You have seen them feed malnourished children and starving people in the Horn of Africa. You have relied on their eyewitness accounts delivered on webcams as haggard, dazed faces revealed the real scale of Japan's tsunami and...

As the UN observes the International Day of the World's Indigenous People at its headquarters in New York today, a reclusive community of indigenous people in Philippines prepares for another restless night of fear and uncertainty.

Far away in the dense, dark forests of Occidental Mindoro,...

It is nearly five years since Sandhya got married to Dablu. It was a grand ceremony by all accounts involving music, singing and a feast where guests had sumptuous amounts of food to relish.

Dablu, however, is still counting the cost as he went penniless after the big party....