India’s reckoning with its dangerous neighbourhood
While the recent eruption of unrest in Nepal is not uncommon for a region that remains in perpetual crisis, it does represent a dangerous new trend
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Nepal is not a failed state, but it is a fragile one
Two books on the socio-political history of Nepal have lessons for the country's future
Everest cornice collapse
As spring climbing season closes, climbing guide says deaths are a warning to reduce overcrowding
Saving Lumbini’s Sarus
Sacred cranes decline as urbanisation destroys their habitat at the Buddha’s birthplace
Saving Nepal’s flyway for migrating cranes
It was in Kagbeni in 1980. High above in the deep blue Himalayan sky was a flock of graceful Demoiselle Cranes, flying...
Eurasian Curlew visits Kathmandu after 50 years
They once used to arrive in flocks of 200 in Kosi Tappu wildlife reserve, and frequent Kathmandu Valley’s wetlands. But after their...
Protecting the last home of the Spiny Babbler
The ruined 250-year-old Gorkhali fortress of Upardang Gadi is located on the northern rim of Chitwan Valley. But that is not the...
Kathmandu's silent spring
The publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring drew public attention to how pesticides had killed much of North America’s songbirds. The...
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