In the summer of 1982, I was conducting ethnographic research on Tibetan pastoralists in Langtang Valley north-west of Kathmandu Valley. When I was not conducting interviews, studying the Kyirong
The May/June 1991 issue of Himal on 'Troubled Waters' carried a detailed review of Nepal's struggle with its hydropower resource. During the past year, democracy
Like people, cities have phases of life: childhood, youth, old age. New York, for example, is an old man of a city: a dirty, cranky old man smelling of stale
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Himals prototype issue, published in May 1987, dealt in detail with the pollution problems of Kathmandu. It was entitled, ´The Valley Chokes". Among other things, the issue raised
On 13 October 1991, Himal organised a panel discussion to cover a limited range of issues on the present and future of Kathmandu Valley. Three themes on the deteriorating social,
"The care and veneration shown by the Valley's inhabitants for their settlements and towns, their temples and holy places, are closely matched by their concern for the
I am a Nepali who has lived abroad for the past ten years, and have visited Kathmandu about once a year during the period. The annual visits have provided me
Perhaps the urban residents of Kathmandu, in their cosmopolitan and west ward-looking straitjacket, would be more willing to preserve some of what they still have if they stopped and
In general, temperature drops with altitude. The rate of decrease, known as the Environmental Lapse Rate (ELR), depends on atmospheric conditions and the composition of air (water vapour, carbon dioxide,
Through the reigns of the Kirats, the Lichhavis and finally the Mallas, the Valley's towns developed and maintained a "religio-cultural urbanism" that was unique. Sadly,
The beauty, the cultural strengths, P I and the very many charms of Kathmandu Valley are all givens. Poets, essayists and travel writers have been extremely kind to our "
