Mansabdar Khan moved to Sagarhawa as a "development refugee". Today, his village faces many crises, of population, fuelwood, irrigation, unemployment, et cetera.
If one asks whether the village
The tourist on the way to Mussoorie or Nainital, Uttar Pradesh's hill stations, passes the beautiful green, yellow and golden fields of the Himalayan foothills. But appearances are
The tarai is becoming indistinguishable from the plains as its environmental and cultural uniqueness is undermined. Traditionally, it was the place where transition from hill to plain took place.
Observers
The tarai used to evoke the image of steaming jungles and tall grasslands teeming with South Asia's "mega fauna" — rhinoceros, tiger, barasingha, elephants. Today, the image
The tarai people are not one faceless group; they are diverse and differentiated.
Much of the tarai society has today become a unique amalgam of hill people and plains people.
Development indicators show that the tarai lowlands are doing better than most hill and mountain regions of Nepal.
The traditional Nepali term for the Inner Tarai and the Tarai lowlands
The tourist brochures about Nepal invariably look to the hills, and the rhetoric of the national identity is derived from the mountainous regions of the country. Nepal's southern
How a programme to revitalise moribund village panchayats has achieved success in a corner of the Uttar Pradesh hills. The key was to let the villagers themselves take active charge
Nepali Legislation is behind the times. It lacks the progressive provisions regarded as fundamental on other legal systems. As a result, the "right to development" is still a
