Doon School Wants a Taste of SAARC
India's elite send their children to the Doon School, at the idyllic foothills of Garhwal, so that they are groomed to
The extraction of the Tharu is veiled in the haze of undocumented history. It is true that life is not permanent and history is not destiny, but it is nevertheless useful to ask, Who are the Tharu?
The Musalman is more protected in 'Hindu Nepal' than he is in 'secular India'. And yet, externally fuelled Islamic fundamentalism and knee-jerk Hindu chauvinism cannot rule
Laxuman Gurung was awarded the Victoria Cross for his performance in the Burma Front in 1945. He lost his right arm and much of his hearing during the medal-winning action.
At one time the Tarai lowlands of Nepal were a paradise for tigers, and for tiger hunters. During the Rana period, the vast tracts of forest and grassland were the
How do we resolve the Kashmir problem? Ask the Kashmiri.
"…while the accession [of Jammu and Kashmir to India] was complete in law and in fact, the other fact
There is a glacier lake up in Rolwaling Himal above the settlement of Bed ing that is about to rupture. An earthquake or avalanche is likely to break the weak,
Great earthquakes are a permanent, if intermittent fixture of the Himalaya. A major earthquake is due to occur in the "seismic gap" which exists between Kathmandu and Dehradun.
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.
The structure and ethos of Bhutan's judiciary are based on 17th century codes laid down by the country's unifier, Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, and the traditional practices
In the early 1970s, when the renowned art historian Pratapaditya Pal came to Kathmandu to research his book, The Arts of Nepal (1974), he asked Nepali artist and art historian
The most significant national-level political prisoner of South Asia is kept in prison to maintain the fiction of a conspiracy against the Bhutanese State.
After three years in prison without
