By: Tenzin Tsundue
Almora, Uttarakhand: When I packed my sleeping bag that early morning before sunrise for this long journey, I placed a white (khatak) scarf at the altar of His Holiness and said I have decided, whatever happens, I will make my way through.  Walking for almost 70 with 300 people covering more than 900 [...]

By: Vividhaditya
In my recent trip to Himachal, I was surprised to find the craze amongst people for the current IPL; even in the remotest of the villages. Further, I was surprised to find the fan following for and backing for Kings XI Punjab. Though I live in Delhi, but through out the series, I haven’t [...]

First-time MLA from Ghumarwin, Rajesh Dharmani talks about his dreams and vision for a better Himachal

Questions regarding the social life of human beings and the inequalities that exist in our society have troubled me since my schooldays. As a result, at a fairly young age I had decided to serve the society in whatever way [...]

By: Vividhaditya
On April 22, the Himachal government banned spitting and littering on the Mall Road, Shimla. A whistle-blower brigade of school students was set-up to embarrass the defaulters by the Science and Technology department and state Pollution Control Board. I wish the government had let the children study and asked its own employees to do [...]

By: Vividhaditya
Let me confess it. I’m a pucca Congressi. But I’d no qualms in accepting that one good thing BJP did in its last regime were the roads. Even being a pucca Congressi, I’d lambasted the ousted Chief Minister, Virbhadra Singh, for neglecting the road to his constituency (Shimla-Rohru) and making trips by air. It’s [...]

‘We’, the people give ourselves HimVani
The severe winter in Himachal seems to be thawing and the days are getting warm and sunny. It seems the weather gods have relented to allow celebrations on February 14th. Well, today happens to be the second anniversary of HimVani.com. So here we are at the end of another milestone [...]

By: Saroj Thakur
The year was 1972. The war with Pakistan had ended and we were so happy that India had not only defeated Pakistan but had captured many Prisoners of War (PoW). The All India Radio (AIR) had a special slot for the messages aired by the POWs to their own people back home. We [...]

By: Vividhaditya

Both Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh are going for assembly elections, yet the national newspapers here in Delhi, have just a small para on Himachal elections, somewhere tugged inside, while Gujarat has a devoted full-page. Why is Himachal not so important for the media or even the national politics? The only noise that Himachal made [...]

From 9,500 ft in the Himalayas
Blowing my own trumpet!

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Tribune finds 18th century piano and a Nazi in Karnataka forests
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 By: Akhil Puri
Himachal – The Land Of Gods, has been since its birth a place where the law prevailed, people having high values lived and showed mutual respect to each other. With our 60 years of Independence, I was not expecting all that to change, but the happenings around us certainly do tell us that [...]