Dharan town and the hill villages of East Nepal were in deep slumber. Then came an ominous rumbling, followed by violent jerking of the ground. Amidst collapsed houses and landslides,
Starting as an official in the Nepal's Ministry of Economic Planning in 1963, Mohan Man Saiju has been intimately connected with Nepali development policy over the years. He
M.A. Chitale of India's Central Water Commission does not give up. Yet again, there is a flurry of consternation over his proposal to cover Himalayan snows with
Nepali's living under palm trees and close to long white sand beaches? A contradiction in terms, one would think. Yet 10,000 Nepalis live on an island in
By the time Indian President R. Venkataraman inaugurated Bhutan's massive Chukha Hydro Electric Project on 21 October, it had already become the nation's leading employer and
Experts at the Floods Information Centre in Dhaka began to get concerned towards the last week of August because of heavy rainfall in Bangladesh and in the catchment areas of
It is good to see fledgling Nepal-TV doing so well, but distressing to note that most of its advertising revenue seems to derive from come-hither advertisements from soda manufacturers, beer
Edmund Hillary climbed Mount Everest in 1953 with his partner Tenzing Norgay. His relationship with the Himalaya has, if anything, deepened in the 35 intervening years. Sir Edmund, presently New
At the eastern tip of the Himalaya lies Arunachal, which literally means "mountains of the rising sun", now going through a process of uneasy and sometimes reluctant transition
The premises are cramped and claustrophobic, but it is a beehive of activity: a former auditorium boarded up to yield office space. It is the base camp of the King
´´You love electricity, we love soil," reads a slogan at the construction site of the Tehri Dam, one of India´s most ambitious and controversial hydro electric projects. To
Except perhaps some centuries ago, when town planners under the Mallas still had their say, the three urban centres of Kathmandu Valley have always been dirty. Stagnant sewers, mounds of
