Human-induced change to natural systems has hit the Himalaya and it is from here that the global alarm must be raised – but Southasia’s ability to respond has been compromised by its geopolitical divisions
Anuradha Roy’s new book chronicles more than two decades of life in a hill station in the Indian Himalaya, where the pleasures of home and the allure of the mountains are inseparable from ecological crisis
Deepa Anappara’s ‘The Last of Earth’ revisits the romance of the Great Game and the pundit explorers, but fails to see beyond enduring notions of Tibet and the Himalaya as empty imperial frontiers
The Mumbai based author Amrita Mahale discusses her new novel ‘Real Life’ – delving into female friendship, obsession, Artificial Intelligence, and what it means to live freely in a world of control
A conversation with the journalist Thomas Bell on his latest book, ‘Human Nature’, and the social, cultural and natural history of people’s lives in the Himalayan environment
This week at Himal
This week, Eileen McDougall writes about how residents of Langtang Valley in Nepal rebuilt after an earthquake in 2015, with residents coming together to reconstruct their
Ten years after the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the people of the Langtang Valley show how community and culture are vital to post-disaster recovery – with lessons for a world plagued by disaster
Ganju Lama, an ethnic Bhutia, wangled his way into the Gurkha regiments and won a Victoria Cross in the Second World War – and proved that a true Gurkha need not come from a “martial” race, or be defined only by battles and bravery
Why have four world-famous architects – Rem Koolhaas, Louis I Kahn, Tadao Ando and Shigeru Ban – tried but failed to create inspiring contemporary designs or buildings in Nepal?
In Mustang, in the Nepali Himalaya, archaeological finds offer staggering insight into the pre-Buddhist history of human civilisation in the Himalaya – yet this past is being obliterated by neglect and folly
