An international development conference with a difference was held in Leh, Ladakh last fall. It was so deliberately low-key that it went wholly unnoticed elsewhere in the Himalaya. While
´´You love electricity, we love soil," reads a slogan at the construction site of the Tehri Dam, one of India´s most ambitious and controversial hydro electric projects. To
Except perhaps some centuries ago, when town planners under the Mallas still had their say, the three urban centres of Kathmandu Valley have always been dirty. Stagnant sewers, mounds of
WHEN the sun set behind the moun¬tains in the village of Benighat in Central Nepal, Bishnu Shrestha used to board up his store and go home to bed. Today,
Neither tree nor tall shrub grows on the bleak uplands of Tibet. As far as the eye can see are barren plains and rumpled hills covered with herbage so scant
In 1974, the Federal Republic of Ger¬many sponsored the first major deve¬lopment effort in Bhaktapur, a project designed to "tackle the economic and social problems … and to
The doctrine of development is the dominant religion in Nepal today and its jargons the most audible liturgy. Even in remote hamlets, the word "bikas" promises a hope
RABINDRA Thapa, 24, a community health worker associated with Save the Children (USA) is making his rounds through the communities of north Gorkha. At the village of Archalay in Lakury
