Some 200 years ago, the Gorkha king politically unified Nepal through conquest While the political entity called Nepal has existed all these years, however, the nation state of Nepal has
A number of foreign agencies and voluntary agencies have been participating in the "development" of Tibet since about 1987. In the last couple of years, however, the pace
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
Like people, cities have phases of life: childhood, youth, old age. New York, for example, is an old man of a city: a dirty, cranky old man smelling of stale
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Himals prototype issue, published in May 1987, dealt in detail with the pollution problems of Kathmandu. It was entitled, ´The Valley Chokes". Among other things, the issue raised
On 13 October 1991, Himal organised a panel discussion to cover a limited range of issues on the present and future of Kathmandu Valley. Three themes on the deteriorating social,
The beauty, the cultural strengths, P I and the very many charms of Kathmandu Valley are all givens. Poets, essayists and travel writers have been extremely kind to our "
In the growing urban landscape of Kathmandu Valley, land taxation has been neglected as a tool to achieve the public policy objectives of social justice and equity.
While there is loud talk of the trafficking of Nepali girls, few are serious enough to address the issues behind the phenomenon. What are the real numbers? Who is endangered by AIDS? And should prostitution be legalised within the country?
Nepal has the dubious distinction of being a nation that has existed in peace for over a century, but whose citizens have girdled the globe fighting in the two Great Wars of the twentieth century, and in virtually every military confrontation to which either India or Britain has been party.
The Nepali government should relinquish its hold over small-scale hydropower and leave the arena free for more efficient consumer-run schemes.
In the upper reaches of the Kali Gandaki gorge, north
For centuries, the waters of the more than 6000 big and small rivers of Nepal have been harnessed to power traditional water mills, the ghattas. There are about 25,000
