A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
The first Nepali film to win at Cannes, Abinash Bikram Shah’s ‘Elephants in the Fog’ is a reminder of the gap between legal change and lived reality for the country’s transgender community
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
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
