"The plane should come tomorrow," Hari was explaining patiently. "It left Nepalganj on time this morning but it had to turnback over Kalikot. The reported visibility there
Soon after Upper Mustang opened to tourism in 1992, a number of travel guides surfaced in the market. Promising to lead the German speakers up to the walled city of
A review of the output of the techno- exuberant school of thought.
By the mid-1980s, it was already apparent that something was seriously amiss with the much-vaunted Himalayan
The debate swirling around the Arun III project has been the first controversy about a major development project in Nepal. The democratic changes of 1990 allowed the public to speak
Was glad to note that Kalimpong has finally made it into the calculations of the babus at the West Bengal Tourism Development Corporation, who put out a full page ad
The dream haunted her. Several times, she caught herself thinking about it; in the middle of her cooking, her washing. But try as she might, she came no nearer to
In northwest Nepal lives a group that is economically backward, socially oppressed, and psychologically pressured. The Khas of Jumla are a group that fell through the cracks of history.
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There are thousands of above-5,000mpeaks in Nepal of which only 142 are open for climbing after permission has been received from the concerned authorities. Anyone who climbs one
A prehistoric site of megaliths was discovered in Tibet's Chang Thang in the 1920s. A traveller who goes in search of it seventy years later comes up with
The peoples of the Far Eastern Himalaya, isolated from each other by hills, jungles, rivers and national boundaries, confront similar challenges based on changing demography, economic neglect, conflict over resources
