by Binish Ahmed This photo essay consists of a sample of photographs I took, highlighting dimensions of life in Indian occupied Kashmir --- a war zone where an anti-colonial resistance movement for self-determination by an Indigenous people (Ahmed 2016, Ahmed 2018a, Ahmed 2018b, Ahmed 2019b) is being violently repressed...

By Rashmi Singh Photos by Jonathan Duncan Aitamaan Limbu is one of the last few sheep herders in the West Sikkim, situated in the Eastern Himalaya of India. In the year 2002-2004, when a state policy banned most grazing and pastoral herding in the protected areas of Sikkim, Aitamaan Limbu sold his cattle and buffalos i...

by Marta Normington In the remote Himalayan region of Zanskar, access to quality education still remains a challenging task. High mountain valleys lying further away from the main road arteries have to rely on local, often understaffed and modestly equipped schools. The regular educational migration of older children is...

by John Bray, James Crowden, Hugh Rayner These photographs were taken by the British missionary Elisa Henriette Read (née Messaz, 1898-1986) who served with the London-based Central Asian Mission in Northwest India between 1925 and 1945. Elisa was born in Switzerland but served as a nurse in Austria at the end of Wo...

by Nyima Dorjee Bhotia & Phurwa Dhondup Gurung Rasuwa district has historically been a strategic Himalayan frontier where one of the two major border crossings between Nepal and the Tibetan Autonomous Region, China, is located. This route was a central locus for military campaigns on multiple occasions, and a key pa...