rails to wow Nepal Tourism Year 2011 tourists.
For trekking enthusiasts and adventure seekers, The Great Himalayan Trail (GHT) will unveil trekking routes which promise rare walks into the remote of Himalayas and meeting with communities there. GHT is a trekking route that is being developed from eastern border to western border. "The launch ...read more
Tourists unwelcome in Upper Mustang 21/08/2010
With Nepal Tourism Year 2011 just five months away, locals of Upper Mustang have threatened to bar foreign tourists from entering the region from October 1.
Upper Mustang Youth Society Chairman Lopsang Chhomphel Bista alias Raju said the society was compelled to take the step, as the g...read more
Comments from readers March 2010
Look inward
Reading Kopalasingham Sritharan’s “Stifled hotbed” (Feb) reinforced for me how the need of the hour is for the Tamils to look at the mistakes they continue to make. Even Sritharan rides over how the Sinhalese registrar of Jaffna University, Mr Wimal-Surendra, wa...read more
Tidbits of the region's media March 2010
India’s babus are once again training their guns at Internet pornography, with new amendments to the Information Technology Act in the works to block websites on the grounds of ‘public order, decency or morality’. But with more power to the judiciary, it brings into question the...read more
Round-up of regional news March 2010
Afghanistan
Fight and flight
RAs US-led forces in Helmand province are in the midst of Operation Moshtarak (Pashto and Dari for ‘together’), battling in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, another significant large-scale military-related move is in the works. According to Pres...read more
'Resonance' March 2010
‘Resonance’: Himal’s commentary on work by artists with the Kasthamandap Art Studio in Kathmandu.
Tinnitus, she said, and I backed away slowly, eyeing her suspiciously. Tinnitus would account for everything, she ended lamely, her palms up in th...read more
Aman and asha at home March 2010
India/Pakistan
Aman and asha at home
New Delhi’s 4 February offer to hold foreign-secretary-level talks with Islamabad hopefully marks the end of a prolonged period of tension between the crotchety neighbours, following the Bombay attacks of November 2008. Interestingly, qui...read more
Dancing by the cliff March 2010
Nepal
Dancing by the cliff
There are less than three months left before the 28 May deadline for the promulgation of the new Nepali constitution. With the 601-member Constituent Assembly not having used the allotted two years for drafting the document efficiently, key constitutiona...read more
