After a long history of isolated stagnation, Nepali society is entering 'times of trouble'. The stress of change is everywhere—the economy, the environment, religious practices, relations among
Are hill economies condemned to remain at the fringes, surviving as appendages to the plains? Or is there a path of development for them that is autonomous, different, creative? Unless
Anondescript building by the Blackfriars Bridge, over the Thames in London, houses the Oriental and IndiaOffice Collections of the British Library. Despite its unassuming looks, it is the repository of
Philosophers say that change is inevitable and inexorable; that "old order changeth yielding place to new". The Himalaya and its people know well what they mean. The process
The May/June 1991 issue of Himal on 'Troubled Waters' carried a detailed review of Nepal's struggle with its hydropower resource. During the past year, democracy
In 1929, the British reached an agreement with Rana Prime Minister Chandra Shumshere to an unequal swap. India would build the Sarda Barrage on the border river of Mahakali in
lndo-Nepal water negotiations are muddied by Nepalis who come without doing their homework, Indians who tend to have an overbearing attitude, and donor agencies which have yet to be made
The spring of 1990 was witness to a mamoth democratic upsurge in Nepal. A historical divide was reached, which will separate all events that went before from those that come
