On 19 May 2009, with the violent deaths of the top rung of the LTTE leadership, including that of its leader V Prabhakaran, Sri Lanka's 30-year-old civil war
Elephant Pass is the narrow strip of land connecting the island landmass of Sri Lanka to its northern Jaffna Peninsula. Bordered on left and right by lagoons and marshes, this
Look Down Not Up Kama Shakya
Sahayogi Press Kathmandu 1988
NRs 130
Review by Rajiv Regmi After reading Kama Shakya´s new travelogue/nature guide/biography/diary, Look Down Not
April, 1988
Review by Satis Schroff, K. Dixit
The Himalaya has always been a good source of stories for international glossy magazines, but most of their reports have tended to
Vikas Publishing House 1987
Review by R.S. Mali at
This is the latest in a series of published works on Nepal by the author (including Nepal in Crisis, 1980)
Produced and Directed by David Breashears and Andrew Harvard Arcturus Films
What happened to George Mallory and Andrew Irvine up on the northern flanks of Mount Everest in 1924 is
According to its author, an advisor to Nepal´s National Educational Planning Commission (NEPC) in the mid-1950´s, "Nepal Diary is not an autobiography….it is a biography of
M.P. Nayar and A.R.K. Sastry Botanical Survey of India IRs 160
The usefulness of this much-needed book on plants of India crosses international frontiers. The format is
Khcmanand Chandola Patriot Publishers IRs90
In this study, the author examines a variety of ancient, medieval and modern sources to advance a political claim for an Indian interest in Western
World-Watch
The first issue of this magazine, published by Worldwatch Institute of Washington DC, contains articles on AIDS in the Third World, the danger of future Chernobyls, and the increasing
In his celebrated treatise The Idea of Justice, Amartya Sen poses the predicament of justice through a story of three kids and a flute. Talented Anne says that the flute
Five Queen's Road
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Train to India: Memories of another Bengal
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Two new books touch upon the lesser-known
