Himalaya

Change and dispossession
Lack of data prevents a planned response to climate change in the Karnali river basin.
Slok Gyawali | Aug 12, 2016

A Himalayan warning
The government has not heeded the lessons from the 2013 Uttarakhand floods.
Himanshu Thakkar | Aug 31, 2015


Sikkim’s ecological fragments
The significant environmental and livelihood benefits of forest fragments are recognised by people but not in policy.
Urbashi Pradhan | Dec 08, 2014

Eastern Himalaya: cradle of ethnogenesis
Language, genes and the peopling of Asia.
George van Driem | Aug 05, 2014

A Himalayan mystery – solved?
The Ascent of Rum Doodle is a widely appreciated mountaineering satire — but of what, exactly?
Don Messerschmidt | Dec 01, 2011

Beyond Indology
The 18th-century ‘discovery’ by Western academics of Sanskrit allowed a whole new branch of science-minded researchers to delve into the mysteries of the Subcontinent: hence, ‘Indology’. Once the three-century-old hang-ups inherent in this field are …
Ted Riccardi | Mar 01, 2010

Glaciers take the heat
The receding glaciers of the Himalaya offer a critical case study of the region’s approach to climate change, in spite of and as a result of scarce scientific data.
Smriti Mallapaty | Oct 01, 2009

The legends of Kosi
Key lessons for dealing with the vagaries of the Kosi’s annual cycle are to be found in the myths and folklore of the North Indian plain.
Dinesh Kumar Mishra | Mar 27, 2009
