During the second British expedition to Chomolongma in 1922, George Finch and Geoffrey Bruce used bottled oxygen for the very first time. The four steel cylinders and the supporting frame
Writer Marcus Dam left Darjeeling when he was 15 "and sick of the place". In Calcutta, however, distance made the heart grow fonder. He returned recently and noted
Government reluctance to admit its limitations urges villages to think big when it comes to development. They are encouraged to ask for airports and highways rather than to initiate projects
Trans-Himalayan travel, however it might have been portrayed, was not the exclusive pastime of Western adventurers. But geographies are created according to the needs of the day.
In a recent
The Himalayan hinterland, for all its isolation, has never been far from the economic forces at play in the rest of the subcontinent and the world. Change in bazaar towns
While the influx of pilgrims and tourists may have changed some parts of Himachal Pradesh, other parts have resisted the destabilising influences of highways. But will this still hold true
Philosophers say that change is inevitable and inexorable; that "old order changeth yielding place to new". The Himalaya and its people know well what they mean. The process
The Bhutanese refugees have a problem. The world outside Nepal does not know they are there. The few that hear of them are told that they are migrants from the
History, culture and politics set the Lhotshampa and the Drukpa apart. The Drukpa has decided to act, but can he prevail in the long term?
It was Kazi Ugen Dorii
Bhutan's economy, which had historically looked north to Tibet, reached a turning point in 1865, when the Sinchula Treaty was signed with British India. This reorientation from north
Amnesty International sent a team to Bhutan in mid-January 1992. It was well-received, kept in the Kunga Chholing royal guest house, and provided with official escorts who accompanied it everywhere.
The Bhutan State Congress was, fora few years, to make big waves on the placid surface of Bhutanese politics. The Party's rise and fall is instructive for the
