From HIMAL, Volume 7, Issue 2 (MAR/APR 1994) The camera cheats on the Himalaya because the filmmaker gets away with it.Documentaries will become more truthful as the locals get to critique them. On 22 July 1993, in the village of Ghemi in Upper Mustang, crew members of a company named Intrepid Films was shooting a …
From HIMAL, Volume 7, Issue 2 (MAR/APR 1994) At Himal magazine, we ran a film festival for three days and rejoiced for weeks afterwards. The audience’s warm embrace of a festival of documentary films was so meaningful that we are energised even in the editing of this magazine. The cover features of this issue are …
From HIMAL, Volume 6, Issue 6 (NOV/DEC 1993) The Lower Hudson Valley is on the other side of the globe from the mountains of South Central Asia. But then New York City, at the mouth of the Hudson River, is the cultural capital of the world, where no region goes unrepresented. A quick review of …
From HIMAL, Volume 6, Issue 5 (SEP/OCT 1993) As remote control switches from Islamabad, New Delhi and Kathmandu open up restricted areas for tourism, Baltis, Sherpas, Ladakhis and Lobas are suddenly spolighted. The high valleys are playing host to tourists, climbers, journalists, film-makers and scholars, many of them in desperate search of places more Tibetan …
From HIMAL, Volume 6, Issue 4 (JUL/AUG 1993) Quite a few readers were taken aback when we brought out our Literature Issue (May/Jun 1993).We think it was a pleasant surprise to most, and now feel that it is a good idea to be occasionally unpredictable. When we first planned the present issue, we had not …
From HIMAL, Volume 6, Issue 2 (MAR/APR 1993) Is there today in South Asia a movement to establish a “Greater Nepal”? If not, is such a movement likely to arise anytime soon? Most connosieurs of South Asian news and politics claim not to believe that there is a movement afoot to create a “Greater Nepal” …
From HIMAL, Volume 6, Issue 1 (JAN/FEB 1993) Were Tibet a developing country rather than a sullen Autonomous Region (U-Tsang and a truncated Kham), the prevailing mantras in seminars and gostis in Lhasa in 1992 would all be about integrated hill (and high plains) development, the girl child, or the the myriads of other development …
From HIMAL, Volume 6, Issue 1 (JAN/FEB 1993) In the headlong rush from producing one Himal to preparing another, this column (meant to communicate with readers) tends to receive short shrift. So hello again, after a lengthy hiatus. Firstly, we say thank you and bid goodbye to Kesang Tseten, who has stood by Himal steadfastly …
From HIMAL, Volume 5, Issue 6 (NOV/DEC 1992) Mountaineering has not even begun to live up to its economic promise in the Himalaya. Decades of publicity about difficult climbs by elite mountaineers has kept ‘holiday climbers’ away. Encouraging easier, more commercial climbing, could prove lucrative to Himalayan countries if their governments, tourism industry and native …
From HIMAL, Volume 5, Issue 4 (JUL/AUG 1992) Arrivals at Goldhap Refugee Camp, 22 -29 July 1992. Pictures by Laxmi Prasad Luitel The Bhutanese refugees have a problem. The world outside Nepal does not know they are there. The few that hear of them are told that they are migrants from the Indian northeast, illegal …