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Dharamsala: The Himachal Pradesh School Education Board has decided to hold the class 10 Board exam in tribal and other inaccessible areas of the state in December instead of March. Class eight board exams in these areas are already being held in December, and if the current experiment proves successful then class 11 and 12 [...]

द्वाराः डी डी शर्मा
हिमाचल प्रदेश में लघु वन उत्पाद के रूप में औषधीय तथा सुगन्धित पौधों का एक बड़ा हिस्सा है । ये प्रदेश के उंचाई वाले क्षेत्रों में गरीब ग्रामीण लोगों की आजीविका और स्वास्थय सुरक्षा में अहम भूमिका निभातें हैं । उन्नीसवी शताब्दी और इससे पहले तो इन क्षेत्रों में यातायात की [...]

Sanjay V 
Trudging through mindspaces that unfurled on Himvani over the past one year, I can only say the landscape ahead is no less enchanting. Much having already been said by fellow travelers, I can only say it has been a spiritual journey for me, a pilgrimage exploring the vast possibilities and layers of meanings that [...]

By: Saroj Thakur
It was by chance and not design that I came to know about HimVani! Why is it that we take for granted all those things that we get so easily? Like the fresh air that we breathe, all those qualities that set us, Himachalis, apart from others, were always taken for granted by [...]

By: Varun Rattan Singh
Working on a new initiative is like raising one’s children. It brings its own anxieties, worries and happiness. Today our small baby - HimVani.com completes one year.  What started as a small community for Himachalis in 2001 has taken shape of an information resource for the people and by the people of [...]

By: Vividhaditya
It’s been an eventful year for HimVani as it celebrates its first anniversary. It was on February 14th 2006, HimVani started as a blog on Blogspot. So before I go into flashback, I’d like to thank all the citizens of Himachal Pradesh for making HimVani a great success. It initially started as my personal [...]

Photos and copyright: D D Sharma

A high school (Left) and a weaver at his handloom (Right) in Dodra village.

Photos and write-up: D D Sharma

A view of the Dodra village (Photo copyright: D D Sharma)
The social and cultural aspects of Himachal Pradesh - known as Dev Bhoomi (Land of Gods) - clearly demonstrate the reverence that people of the state have for the local deities. If we try to draw the historical relation of [...]

Photos and copyright: D D Sharma

A scene at Hotel Peterhoff, Shimla (Left), February 12, as TV news reporters (Right) give a live weather update from Indian Institute of Advanced Studies. Shimla received about one-foot snow on February 11, after a dry January.

Photos and copyright: Lalit Kumar

A father carrying his son to the polio booth in Shimla, February 11, 2007.
People enjoying out in the snow on the Ridge, Shimla, February 11, 2007, as the Snow-God finally listened [...]