Himalayas

Tarun Bhartiya: The Last Songs of Life

Janice Pariat

Tarun Bhartiya’s documentary is a celebration of the essential Northeast whose music carries the sighs and sorrows of the soil

Mount Everest by Air

Lhendup G Bhutia

Flying aboard a notorious carrier along the Himalayas, exulting in its grandeur while hanging on to dear life

Hallowed Heights

Ashok Mahadevan

After cancer and retirement, what do you do? How about climbing the Kilimanjaro and Himalayas

Doubt and Dogma

Rahul Pandita

Tarun Tejpal’s novel should be read to understand the world we live in, one that extremist ideologies have plunged into darkness

Identity Crisis

Shruti Ravindran

Doubts have suddenly been cast on the ‘miraculous’ discovery of a new species of macaque in the Eastern Himalayas of Arunachal. The scientists who found it are not amused

Snow leopards share a particularly punishing habitat with people in the higher reaches of the Himalayas, with resources scarce and vegetation sparse. The conventional conservation model of separating wild animals and people simply does not work here. India’s green establishment is showing signs of accepting this reality, if only grudgingly