Simla
Then And Now
Vipin Pubby
Indus Publishing, New Delhi
IRs 140, 1988
Review by Sudhirendar Sharma
Shimla (the spelling in vogue) occupies a unique place in the history of
NAKUSHA
(The Unwanted Child)
Video documentary UNICEF, New Delhi 20 minutes, 1989
Nakusha is not an invented title, but the name of the fourth daughter of a rural family that
Written For Ever: The best of Civil Lines
edited by Rukun Advani
Ravi Dayal, 2009
What is one thing Suketu Mehta, Amitav Ghosh, Amitava Kumar, Ruchir Joshi and Allan Sealy
Meera Nanda has conducted a valiant fight over the past decade. A special part of my bookshelf is reserved for her important works, all appeared over the past decade: Breaking
Picking up any book that bears a quaint gramophone, a derby, a tennis racket and the British flag on the cover brings to mind a light-hearted tale my otherwise serious
On 19 May 2009, with the violent deaths of the top rung of the LTTE leadership, including that of its leader V Prabhakaran, Sri Lanka's 30-year-old civil war
Elephant Pass is the narrow strip of land connecting the island landmass of Sri Lanka to its northern Jaffna Peninsula. Bordered on left and right by lagoons and marshes, this
Look Down Not Up Kama Shakya
Sahayogi Press Kathmandu 1988
NRs 130
Review by Rajiv Regmi After reading Kama Shakya´s new travelogue/nature guide/biography/diary, Look Down Not
April, 1988
Review by Satis Schroff, K. Dixit
The Himalaya has always been a good source of stories for international glossy magazines, but most of their reports have tended to
Vikas Publishing House 1987
Review by R.S. Mali at
This is the latest in a series of published works on Nepal by the author (including Nepal in Crisis, 1980)
Produced and Directed by David Breashears and Andrew Harvard Arcturus Films
What happened to George Mallory and Andrew Irvine up on the northern flanks of Mount Everest in 1924 is
According to its author, an advisor to Nepal´s National Educational Planning Commission (NEPC) in the mid-1950´s, "Nepal Diary is not an autobiography….it is a biography of