Folk knowledge is a treasure that has been passed on by word of mouth. It needs to be protected and documented before it is lost

Various restrictions imposed to protect the environment at Nanda Devi in the Himalaya have disturbed the rural lifestyle and economy, doing little to conserve the ecology

the focus of the book is on the processes by which the development of a grassroot institution was attempted and the constraints faced in doing this with bureaucracy as a dominant partner. The book

While working on a project in the hills of Nepal a few years back, Delhi-based journalist Ruchira Gupta noticed a strange phenomenon. "Many villages in the hills had no woman in the age group of