The more memorable experiences of life are rarely those we plan for.
On a cold overcast day in October 1980, I and five other New Yorkers were trekking along a
Tibet probably ranks high in many people's list as a place for which they feel a close affinity but know next to nothing about.
For instance, I recently
Before it became "Shangri-La" to the world, Hill it seems, the Himalaya was the land of the grotesque. The earliest Western descriptions of the Himalayan region are,
A Rejoinder
In the September/October issue of Himal, Siddiq Wahid offered his views on the causes of the recent turmoil in Ladakh. According to this scholar, the cause of
Do they have witches in Germany? asked Pushpa S., a 26- year-old Nepalese woman from Dharan at a Nepalese get-together in the Wasserracker Strasse 1 in Freiburg, a
An estimated 40 million people in India alone suffer from goitre. A large percentage of these are cretins, who are mentally or physically retarded. Far from being a "cosmetic&
In their mission to save forests, conservationists overlook forest dwellers
In a cruel environmental paradox, there is provision in Indian forest laws for conserving tigers and trees, but little thought
Damn the dam, says the opposition. If built, Tehri Dam in Garhwal will submerge the homes of 86,000 people. The decision is the Supreme Court's.
Work on
The eighth Five-Year Plan ignores the devastating effect of the Indo-Nepal impasse on the economy. Is it possible to plan for the next five years pretending that the
In Nepal, the public and the Government alike have had little experience with projects that involve considerable displacement of people. The Kulekhani Hydroelectric Project was one of the first. Before
Social – and not – civil engineering will help floodplain societies to benefit from floods, while reducing their vulnerability to them.
Recent years have seen growing media attention directed to the floods
