Travel: How a trip to Dharali changed my life For many months, the following words of Zen Master Eihei Dogen had been reverberating intermittently in my ears: ‘From time immemorial, the mountains have been the dwelling place of all the great sages. Wise ones and sages have all made the mountains their own chambers, their own body and mind, and through these wise ones and sages, the mountains have been […]

  Kathmandu: Human waste left by climbers on Mount Everest has become a problem that is causing pollution and threatening to spread disease on the world’s highest peak, the chief of Nepal’s mountaineering association said Tuesday. The more than 700 climbers and guides who spend nearly two months on Everest’s slopes each climbing season leave large amounts of feces and urine, and the issue has not been addressed, Ang Tshering […]

In this series of narratives, I shall recount random encounters with people : something in their lives struck a chord in me and by sharing it with you it might make you reflect on your own…….   The Cobblers come to Chango   We hurried through the narrow lanes between the stone houses, the warm August sunshine a very welcome ingredient in the invigorating air at 10,000 feet in the Kinnaur Himalaya […]