Anondescript building by the Blackfriars Bridge, over the Thames in London, houses the Oriental and IndiaOffice Collections of the British Library. Despite its unassuming looks, it is the repository of
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa has been enshrined in Nepal´s national consciousness as an authentic heroine, her legend established: need anything more be said?
Decidedly, yes. The article in Himal of
Nepali and non-Nepali modern-day historians of Nepal have a lot to answer for.
Two decades ago, addressing a gathering of social scientists in Kathmandu. historian Ludwig R Stiller declared that
The English edition of the classic French work by Bernard Pignede, The Gurungs (1966), has recently been brought out by Ratna Pustak Bhandar (see Abstracts, page 39). As an appendix
A Japanese ascetic stopping over on the way to Lhasa finds time to tell Chandra Shamsher like it is.
A glance back into the past of any nation reveals certain
There are too many hooks. But there are too few that are worth reading.
Recently, the author Ruskin Bond voiced his dismay at the lack of Himalayan literature. After we
Two kids, a boy and a girl, were excitedly playing a game they had just invented. One of them would make a small mound of dust on the ground, wait
As a schoolboy, he had decided he was an introvert: later in the course of his maturing, he revised this analysis to "mildly schizophrenic." This had an immensely
A certain recluse took his seclusion to its utmost to absolutely shun fellow beings. However, he could not kill his inherent compulsion to talk. He desperately wished there was someone
Whether it was in a German Assault,
Or in the seige of Burma,
Whether it was amid Malay rubber trees
Or in a strangers' wars in NEFA, Ladakh
Sol's gone down, run aground,
Wan glow wanes in westwake;
The duskin' air is moisty.
Soundlessly,
Kathmandu night, rain has just
stopped. Unreasonably early
pre-monsoon, making things wet
when they should be dry. Which
