Recent ethnic unrest in this "remote" region have to do with the Ladahkis' own victimisation to the phenomenon of "intellectual colonialism" that began with the Western missionary.
Let me acquire my share of merit by reciting the name of Ramacharita Manas three times before dwelling upon the mundane aspects of its influence upon the daily lives of
When the North thinks of the South, the image is often one of hopelessness: drought and destruction, floods and debt. Weeping fathers and mothers in disaster-ridden countries burying their
It is a chilly autumn afternoon in a herding camp above Langtang, a Tibetan community which lies at 11,500 ft. in Rasua District north of Kathmandu. Yak, Tibetan cattle
Ladakh only opened to tourists in 1974, before which it was almost completely isolated from outside influences. After the Sino-Indian war of 1962, large numbers of Indian troops were
As a traveler who has come to the Nepal Himalaya over 30 times, I have studied closely the trends in Himalayan tourism, particularly as it relates to Japanese visitors. Recently,
Since the early 1970s, shrill alarms have been sounded that because of deforestation Nepal is in danger of being washed away into the Bay of Bengal. Indeed, as one approaches
Every Five Year Plan since Indian independence has focussed on eliminating poverty. Yet, 40 years later, about half of the population still lives below the poverty line. The poor are
Recently, we have all heard declarations on the virtues of privatisation in Nepal. They come from the large Nepali business houses, the global capitalist states, and financial organisations like the
Every year, uncontrolled flooding in the Brahmaputra and Ganges river basins results in loss of life, damage to crops, dwellings and other properties, contamination of water supplies, the spreading of
Much water — most of it polluted — has flowed under the bridge since the Stockholm Conference of 1972, when most non-Western Governments rejected environmentalism as a Western fad. However, there
