A press conference was held earlier this year in Kathmandu to publi¬cise the success of the national team from North Ossetia, Russia, on Everest. The obvious pride the Ossetians
We spent the evenings before the People´s Movement in that hotel, killing time. It wasn´t much of a hotel, despite its name: Pashupati Hotel. Even the signboard that
Journalists from across the Himalayan region convened at the Hotel Summit in Patan on 22 and 23 June to examine "Media and the Himalaya". The 17 participants arrived
Docile even in the face of the loss of a kingdom, could it be that decades later the Bhutia and Lepcha are finding their voice, to try and protect what
For Tibetans, Yamdrok Yurntso is a 'La-tso'(repository of spiritual power) mystically linked with the fortunes of their land and nation. 'Yumtso' or 'turquoise
An emaciated Sunderial Bahuguna agreed on 27 June to end his protest fast after Uttar Pradesh Governor Motilal Vora arrived by helicopter from Lucknow with assurances that Prime Minister P.
Harnessing all of Nepal´s hydropower resource would require the building of about 60 run-of-river power plants and 30 reservoir/dam projects in the middle hills. The construction
While opponents of dam-building base their protests on issues of compensation, rehabilitation, submergence, seismic hazards, religious sentiments and cultural intrusion, in essence what is happening is that highlanders have
"His Majesty's Government, taking into consideration the pressure on the environment of the Khumbu region and to lessen the pressure in the area and to conserve the
The extraction of the Tharu is veiled in the haze of undocumented history. It is true that life is not permanent and history is not destiny, but it is nevertheless useful to ask, Who are the Tharu?
