As a schoolboy, he had decided he was an introvert: later in the course of his maturing, he revised this analysis to "mildly schizophrenic." This had an immensely
A certain recluse took his seclusion to its utmost to absolutely shun fellow beings. However, he could not kill his inherent compulsion to talk. He desperately wished there was someone
Whether it was in a German Assault,
Or in the seige of Burma,
Whether it was amid Malay rubber trees
Or in a strangers' wars in NEFA, Ladakh
Sol's gone down, run aground,
Wan glow wanes in westwake;
The duskin' air is moisty.
Soundlessly,
Action Plan for Himalaya
Himavikas Occasional Publication # 2
Govinda Ballav Pant Institute for
Himalayan Environment and Development,
1992; Kosi, Almora
The book proposes a technocrat's model for eco-
Kathmandu night, rain has just
stopped. Unreasonably early
pre-monsoon, making things wet
when they should be dry. Which
Himal's prototype (Vol 0 No 0) was published in May 1987. This present issue is the magazine's 25th. A political scientist from the Jawaharlal Nehru University
I no longer fear death. I no longer value life. Its remnants lie curled up cold and clammy inside me, waiting to be snuffed out.
It began with envy: the
All day long she moves in silence.
Betrayed only by musical glass bangles,
I could almost believe in her non-existence
But at night,
Sunlight flickers
Escaping around tall prayer flag
surfeited with prayers.
The morning wind blows,
There is a sodium moon at Thana Dora crossing that lights up every evening at six.
Under its corrosive glow, two men passed each other in the night.
One stops
