This week at Himal
This week, Eileen McDougall writes about how residents of Langtang Valley in Nepal rebuilt after an earthquake in 2015, with residents coming together to reconstruct their
Ten years after the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the people of the Langtang Valley show how community and culture are vital to post-disaster recovery – with lessons for a world plagued by disaster
In her biography of the city, the Kashmiri writer highlights the complications of Srinagar’s identity and recentres the everyday lives of its people, particularly women
Sunela Jayewardene’s search for Ravan’s presence in Sri Lanka offers a counter to Sinhala Buddhist appropriation of the mythic king, but comes with its own pitfalls
Events like the Galle Literary Festival and Matara Festival for the Arts have always been elite playgrounds, but now – to their detriment – they are also increasingly arenas of state power and international politics
'Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption … is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.'
– Guy Debord, French philosopher, in The Society
Though ramshackle and long deserted, the Leh Palace remains an imposing building. Standing atop a hillock, the nine-story structure, inspired by the Potala Palace, dominates the otherwise low-lying Leh '
