By: Vijay Samyal Jawali: While the Himachal Pradesh government may boast of having provided drinking water to each village, in fact every house, across the state, the ground reality may be bit disturbing. In fact, in absence of government...
By: Satyakam Bharti It has been nearly a fortnight that five 17th-century bronze idols were stolen from the Miya Ka Mandir in Nahan, but there has been no official word over it except for the police version. The religious heritage...
By: Bhawani Negi At a time when there is a mad race to exploit every little stream flowing down the slopes of Himachal Pradesh, there is one voice talking restrain – a person who has been part of the hydro-electric...
By: Tikender Panwar Barapole, a beautiful village in the tribal valley of Kinnaur district, had around 100 houses belonging to scheduled tribe and scheduled caste families who had been living there together for ages. The village was known for its...
By: Ravish Sharma “Big multinational companies hire only from the IITs & IIMs,” is what youths generally think. But the mindset seems to be fast changing with more number of students with their sheer hard work proving that talent does...
By: Bhawani Negi Madhu Sudan, a teacher by profession, has been imparting her most important lesson outside her classroom for the last three decades. She has been teaching people the virtue of universal brotherhood through blood donation. 53-year-old Madhu Sudan,...
Filmmaker Vivek Mohan, who directed a award-winning film on  Malana, contests the popular claim regarding the origin of people living in the isolated hamlet, claiming that they are very much carrying forward an Indian tradition of democracy and...
By: Tikender Panwar It happened in a village called Himsu, there lived a blacksmith name ‘Baru’. He was quite hardworking and, when he had no work he used to work on the fields of other villagers. Himsu village comprised a...
By: Puneet Sood Dharamshala: An awareness Camp on Blood Donation and HIV/ AIDS was organised at ITI for Women, Dari, four kilometres away from Dharamshala, as part of the National Youth Day Celebrations. There is no substitute for human blood and...