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Shimla: Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist, says, “When you want something, the whole world conspires in helping you to achieve it.” How true the statement appears in case of Shreya Sharma, the child actor from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, as she finds herself on cloud nine and also in US classrooms, not as a student but [...]

By: Shikha Patial
Shimla: Khali’s journey from Sirmaur to Atlanta where he is currently based is well known to everyone. He is a big star today, and the media has spent reams of paper on him. Luckily being a Shimlaiite, I have had the fortune to see him closely and be around this giant man, who, [...]

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Dharamshala: For the first time in the history of Himachal cricket, a local lad has been selected to represent the country in any form of the game. 17-year-old Ratikant Saini of Hamirpur would be part of the under-19 India team that is to tour South Africa shortly. A wicketkeeper-cum-batsman, Ratikant is currently a trainee at [...]

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New Delhi: According to a media report, Himachal government plans to attract tourists by giving details about the state in different foreign languages on the tourism department’s website. HimVani as a think-tank, had strongly vouched for branding of Himachal tourism and revamp of the department’s website and impart info in foreign languages. HimVani, while carried [...]

By: Surekha Dhaleta

V S Kokje, Governor of Himachal Pradesh, with differently-abled children after honouring them for their achievements in a programme organised by Society for Disability and Rehabilitation Studies (SDRS) in Shimla. H K Sharma, CMD of Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam and Ajai Srivastava, Chairman of SDRS, HP are also seen in the picture.
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Kinkari Devi at her home in Sangrah, Sirmaur
Solan: Gazing at the vastness of the sky, Kinkari Devi sits outside her house in Sangrah, a remote village in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh. There is silence around, but wait, …she asks this writer to be quite for a moment. “I [...]

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: 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 [...]

By: DD Sharma

Seabuckthorn in Tino Village of Tod Valley
KYELANG: Ladhak region of Jammu and Kashmir, Lahaul Spiti, parts of Kinnaur and Chamba districts of Himachal Pradesh are together known as the cold deserts of India. Due to extreme temperatures and sparse forest cover, life in these areas is too harsh beyond imagination. Cut off from [...]

By: D D Sharma

The self-help-group of Pilhori panchayat alongside heaps of Bhabher grass (Pic: D D Sharma)
Need based micro-planning and people’s participation has brought a new ray of hope to the natives of Pilhori and Bharog-Baneri panchyats, one of the remotest area of Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh. While the former is making good use [...]