There would be no way to count them, but across the Himalaya mountains there are thousands upon thousands mystics. They come in all hues and traditions, from seekers who live
Vishwanath Giri, a sadhu, occupied a small room off the main shrine at the Dattatrey temple in Bhaktapur for several years. Men from the neighbourhood came to sit, talk and
A Quest for Survival
At the age of 16, Diwan Singh Bohra was forced to leave his village of Karan Karayat in Pithoragarh District of Uttar Pradesh. His father, Badri
At the eastern tip of the Himalaya lies Arunachal, which literally means "mountains of the rising sun", now going through a process of uneasy and sometimes reluctant transition
The villagers of Chorkate in Gorkha District recently had a first hand experience with a development consultant and are not ready for another one soon. A foreign expert decided that
The entire region is slowly sinking into a slough of alcoholism. Districts that have been traditionally dry are being invaded by liquor stores as an underemployed male populace takes to
The loss of forest cover has been blamed on villagers' need for firewood and fodder. But cremation is also a significant factor, even though some officials and environmentalists understandably
In April, scientists in the United States found that the depletion of ozone gas in the world's atmosphere was at least three times more serious than had been
THE International Centre for Integrat¬ed Mountain Development (ICI¬MOD) has completed two years of ope¬ration and "is off and running", according to its Director, Colin Rosser.
An international development conference with a difference was held in Leh, Ladakh last fall. It was so deliberately low-key that it went wholly unnoticed elsewhere in the Himalaya. While ten
´´You love electricity, we love soil," reads a slogan at the construction site of the Tehri Dam, one of India´s most ambitious and controversial hydro electric projects. To
Except perhaps some centuries ago, when town planners under the Mallas still had their say, the three urban centres of Kathmandu Valley have always been dirty. Stagnant sewers, mounds of
