The highest mountains of the Himalaya stand in the central part of the range. The peaks shrink in size to the east and to the west until they rise suddenly
The East profits from Zen and the art of money-making, and the capitalist West from the consumerist spirit and Protestant work ethic. Why does South Asia totter?
Poverty has a
The new Nepali Constitution represents a milestone, but it has many problems of principle and interpretation that have to be overcome through amendment by the future Parliament.
The eight-week-long Nepali
Tourists and travellers are essentially the same. Yet, while the former acknowledge their otherness, the latter do not.. They deceive themselves by believing that they can be cultural insiders.
Pumpernickel
Gauri-Shankar was once thought to be the highest mountain in the world. This peak of 7134m, in what is known as the Rolwaling Himal chain, is actually 1714m lower than
The Aymara and Quechua people of the Andean highlands are only superficially Roman Catholic by religion: they retain beliefs and rituals which date back to pre-Inca times. Their worldview contains
Third World environmental movements seem preoccupied with tree-plantings and ceremonial observances. Meanwhile, the underlying political issues relating to global and local environmental issues are ignored.
June 5, World Environment Day,
The more memorable experiences of life are rarely those we plan for.
On a cold overcast day in October 1980, I and five other New Yorkers were trekking along a
Tibet probably ranks high in many people's list as a place for which they feel a close affinity but know next to nothing about.
For instance, I recently
Before it became "Shangri-La" to the world, Hill it seems, the Himalaya was the land of the grotesque. The earliest Western descriptions of the Himalayan region are, to
A Rejoinder
In the September/October issue of Himal, Siddiq Wahid offered his views on the causes of the recent turmoil in Ladakh. According to this scholar, the cause of
