Which is the world's most beautiful mountain? The winner must be decided on the score of sheer aesthetic appeal and the ability to inspire wonder. Beauty does not
Becoming good Buddhists may well be a matter of people becoming something they look as though they might have been but never actually were.
Chogyam Trungpa, the renowned guru, once
For too long, the lowlanders of Nepal have neglected and denigrated them as unkempt "Bhoteys". The cultural and economic distress of Humla's Tibetan-speakers is fed by
For the majority of the Buddhist population of Ladakh, the coming year will be a crucial one. Talks are entering a critical phase on the granting of Hill Council Status
The Baltis now have a global clientele on whose reflection they are beginning to fashion a new identity for themselves.
The summer 'window of opportunity' for the ubiquitous
With the collapse of Lhasa as the centre of its cultural world, the Tibetan periphery has had to devise new means of survival in order to preserve its identity. Among Tibetans of Tibet, there is a shift from defending the faith to defending the flag.
Tibetan ritual music is not a pastiche of gentle good feeling about the Universe. It is an alarm to the system, waking us up to the vibrancy of the world
Himalayan history cannot be seen in isolation of the developments elsewhere in South Asia.
History is often accepted as an account of how good kings won battles, established empires and
The Tharus could not have hid out in the jungle for aeons waiting to be discovered during the malaria eradication campaign of the 1950s. They must have a history of
The editors of Himal have asked me to write a brief note on why I write economic history. Having engaged in research and writing on the economic history of Nepal
Soda! Activism in the Uttar Pradesh hills has its origins back in the days when the British still ruled. Back then, too, the inhabitants of Kumaun and Garhwal were politically
