“bill aitken kerala”

Himalayan Quiz covers the entire spectrum of the Himalayas from the East to the West and deals with history, geography, life style, religion, ecology and sports of the region.Bill Aitken came to India from Britain as a student of Comparative Religion in 1959. The moment he set eyes on the Himalayas ... More

‘This biography bears testimony to the enduring relevance of the sacred in our times' — Afternoon Despatch Born into a poor family in the village of Puttaparthi in southern Andhra Pradesh, Sathyanarayan Raju was a bright, talented and confident boy whose charitable nature and religiosity belied ... More

The Himalayan Journal (HJ), published since 1929, had a series ofleading editors over the years and it is an authoritative and exhaustive recordon the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindukush, for exploration, mountaineering andsport. Ofthe several leading authors who have contributed articles in the HJ t... More

Kerala overview: Transport; best season; accommodation; food; festivals; handicrafts; dances; ayurvedic remedial therapy; absolute musts; places to see: Thrituvananthapuram (the capital), the Neyyar Wildlife sanctuary, Pon Mudi, Kovalam, the beach resort of varkala, kolla, Alappuzha, kochi, Guruvay... More

The extraordinary photographs of Johnathan Watts allow us to witness the richness of the Hindu rituals of Kerala and perfectly portray the diversity of peoples and customs in this colourful southern Indian state. The contrasts here are many: light and dark, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, fire a... More

Zanskar must be India’s most unlikely landscape. It is certainly India’s least known province, totally locked within a ring of mountains, north of the Great Himalayan crest. Zanskar is emphatically gompa country where a dozen monasteries, great and small, play a crucial societal role; in... More

books festival, cookeryThe Malayali cuisine is an intricate balance of flavours, aroma, and nutritive values. Time-taking and at times arduous as it might seem, it constitutes the daily diet of the people of 'God's own country' - Kerala.... More

In Kerala: The Paradoxes of Public Action and Development, development scholars explore the paradoxical aspects of Kerala’s development experience. This state, which had emerged as a “model” of Third World development entered the 21st century with the paradoxes in its “development” sharply... More