There are those who would die—and some who would kill—for old stamps from Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan.
A true philatelist (Webster's: phi-lat-e-list, "a collector of
Docile even in the face of the loss of a kingdom, could it be that decades later the Bhutia and Lepcha are finding their voice, to try and protect what
For Tibetans, Yamdrok Yurntso is a 'La-tso'(repository of spiritual power) mystically linked with the fortunes of their land and nation. 'Yumtso' or 'turquoise lake&
An emaciated Sunderial Bahuguna agreed on 27 June to end his protest fast after Uttar Pradesh Governor Motilal Vora arrived by helicopter from Lucknow with assurances that Prime Minister P.
Harnessing all of Nepal´s hydropower resource would require the building of about 60 run-of-river power plants and 30 reservoir/dam projects in the middle hills. The construction of the
While opponents of dam-building base their protests on issues of compensation, rehabilitation, submergence, seismic hazards, religious sentiments and cultural intrusion, in essence what is happening is that highlanders have understood
The debate swirling around the Arun III project has been the first controversy about a major development project in Nepal. The democratic changes of 1990 allowed the public to speak
In northwest Nepal lives a group that is economically backward, socially oppressed, and psychologically pressured. The Khas of Jumla are a group that fell through the cracks of history.
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A prehistoric site of megaliths was discovered in Tibet's Chang Thang in the 1920s. A traveller who goes in search of it seventy years later comes up with
The peoples of the Far Eastern Himalaya, isolated from each other by hills, jungles, rivers and national boundaries, confront similar challenges based on changing demography, economic neglect, conflict over resources
