Trekking in the Himalaya has received a lot of publicity in Western media. Tour companies sell the image of a comfortable adventure without any stress or suffering, with the sahib
The trekking industry exploits the hill porter, little realising that short-term greed invites long-term disaster. A minimum portering wage must be fixed. There should be more, not less, intervention by
During the four decades of international assistance and development programmes in the Himalaya and adjacent mountain regions, amidst failures all around, some projects have received high praise. With this look
Giving Darjeeling back to Sikkim would restore the historical unity of this region. Old Sikkim was the land of the Bhutias and Lepchas; the future Sukhim would be a Nepali-dominated state of the Indian Union, which would respond to the frustrations of the Nepalis of India and defuse today's tensions
The political liberalization in Nepal came about at a time when Christian organisations were looking for new multitudes to convert. The country provides fertile ground for the development-missionary as well
The situation in Southeast Nepal will become explosive if the Bhutanese refugees stay there much longer. Meanwhile, their leaders concentrate on running each other down.
The screening camp set up
Himal's prototype (Vol 0 No 0) was published in May 1987. This present issue is the magazine's 25th. A political scientist from the Jawaharlal Nehru University
The Indian Government's decision not to use World Bank money to build the Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project was a victory for Indian environmentalists and human righters. The Bank
When future historians look back, they may find that it is the dharma's universalism, rather than Tibet's victimisation, that explains the extraordinary worldwide public support for
Traditional virtues were abandoned by many scholars of Bhutan, when confronted with the Southern Problem.
I am a journalist and know my place at academic conferences: keep quiet, take notes,
Nepalis romanticize 'America' because they have been bombarded with overglorified images. It is a feeling that is hard to shake off even when living a B-grade lifestyle in
