Great earthquakes are a permanent, if intermittent fixture of the Himalaya. A major earthquake is due to occur in the "seismic gap" which exists between Kathmandu and Dehradun.
Original title Ratbhari Huri Chalyo. From Rai's first collection, Bipana Katipaya, 1960.
Again the wind began rattling the tin roof remorselessly. 'Clang, clang, clang,' it went.
On 22 July 1993, in the village of Ghemi in Upper Mustang, crew members of a company named Intrepid Films was shooting a docu-mentary for the US-based Discovery
The organisers of most film festivals come in for considerable flak on their choice of films to screen. Film festivals, after all, are meant to showcase the best cinematic fare
A review of the Himalayan films brought together by Film Himalaya 1994 indicates that there are many to applaud and enough to criticise.
In 18 February, Sri Mustangi Rajasaheb Jigme
Bahuns, Nepal's hill Brahmans, have become the whipping boys of the present-day ethnic leadership. Grab one by the collar though, and you will find that he has forsaken most of his supposed traits.
Social vulnerability, rather than ecological vulnerability, has been the primary driver of environmental change in the Himalaya.
A False Harmonising of Himalayan Experience
Saving the Himalaya
by Derek Denniston
The structure and ethos of Bhutan's judiciary are based on 17th century codes laid down by the country's unifier, Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, and the traditional practices
In the early 1970s, when the renowned art historian Pratapaditya Pal came to Kathmandu to research his book, The Arts of Nepal (1974), he asked Nepali artist and art historian
The most significant national-level political prisoner of South Asia is kept in prison to maintain the fiction of a conspiracy against the Bhutanese State.
After three years in prison
Chipko is not a movement, it 'was' one. Its energies sapped by excessive adulation, the movement wound up too quickly. For a while, though, Chipko came tantalisingly close to providing, for a corner of South Asia, socio-economic development through a paradigm that was self-developed.
Himal carried the article "The Paradoxical Support of Nepal's Left for Comrade Gonzalo" by Stephen L. Mikesell in its March/April 1993 issue. In late November,
