They stopped him above Tista where the road curved up into the vicious climb called Kaazimaan-ko-ukkaalo: each armed with a long curved knife and the tallest dangled a
Teacher is always saying marrying young helps; and when he says it he holds his five-year-old daughter like she was a piece of evidence.
Teacher, dear eyes, thinning,
On 18 May 1994, five Nepali soldiers serving with the United Nations contingent in Mogadishu were killed by Somali gunmen, and one was later abducted from hospital.
The gurkha with
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.
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.
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,
The Sep/Oct 1993 of Himal had an article on missionaries, which referred to Capuchin priests and Kathmandu Christians who were forced to m igrate to Bettiah after Prithvi Narayan
Giving Darjeeling back to Sikkim would restore the historical unity of this region. Old Sikkim was the land of the Bhutias and Lepchas; the future Sukhim would be a Nepali-dominated state of the Indian Union, which would respond to the frustrations of the Nepalis of India and defuse today's tensions
The celebrated death of a Sherpa woman climber on Chomolongma seems to have served the purpose of politicians and journalists far removed from mountaineering.
…or perhaps not so paradoxical. For the conditions exist in the hills of Nepal for a Shining Path-like movement, equally sectarian and equally violent.
The London staff of the
