By Raja Murthy, Asia Times
June 23, 2009
RANIKHET – From this Himalayan town about 380 kilometers from Delhi, my first view of mystical Nandi Devi was one of those velvet-cloaked, sledge-hammer moments in life that softly stuns the senses and leaves one wordless.
Golden early morning sunlight lit the snow-capped 7,800-meter peak, India’s highest, as Nanda Devi [...]

Steve Keenan, Times Online
December 2, 2008
The last leg of my 12-hour car journey from Delhi co-incided with dusk as we climbed from the valley floor high into the forests of Binsar National Park.
We were in Uttarakhand, the newest Indian state created only in 2000 and then renamed last year, which is cradled [...]

(PTI) August 8, 2007
DEHRA DUN: Uttarakhand police has been put on high alert following a series of clashes between locals and Kanwarias at many places in the state, with environmentalists calling for a ban on pilgrims’ movements at Gangotri.
The incidents have taken place at Musoorie, Rishikesh, Haridwar and other parts of the state where Kanwarias [...]

In the foothills of the Indian mountains, a plan to offer walking holidays for tourists could be the salvation of five ancient villages. Peter Hughes reports.
London Telegraph, 21 June 2007
I can see them now, standing on a ridge above me, their saris rinsed in sunlight. They were waving wildly, laughing and shouting my name, “Peter, [...]

Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka), 15 July 2007
(Reuters) HUNDREDS of thousands of pilgrims flocking to holy sites in the Himalayas are fouling fragile mountain ecosystems with rubbish, human waste, air pollution and the deforestation that comes with development.
Hindus believe the Himalayas are the abode of Lord Shiva, the god of destruction and regeneration, and devotees trek [...]

BY Jagmohan Kathait
It is a pleasant drive from Dehradun to Rishikesh via Jolly grant. Barring few chaotic clusters it is an amiable route. We took the bypass before Rishikesh to reach the edge of Laxman Jhula, This bypass further connects to Tehri through well known Ananda Spas. Once I drove some [...]

Badrinath (Uttarakhand), May 8: Uttarakhand’s holy town of Badrinath, known for its beatific and peaceful surroundings, is facing the threat of loosing its serenity to rampant urbanisation.
Scores of constructions sites have sprung across the city. The Himalayan town has seen deforestation owing to accelerated construction work and a high level of pollution, attributed by a [...]

British traveler Daniel Robinson has been in jail since October 2006 because he strayed across the Indo-Tibetan border. We call on the authorities to free Robinson immediately, both as a clemency for his health and as a remedy for the highly punitive sentence that was imposed for such an unintentional infraction.
This case amply illustrates the [...]

Belfast Telegraph, Monday, January 22, 2007

Farming communities in northern India are opening their homes to tourists. Not only does this help villages survive, but at the end of a hard day’s walking, the locals’ personal touch made Rebecca Baker feel genuinely looked after

“Migration is an increasingly familiar story in the Kumaon area of Uttarakhand and [...]

By Rajiv Rawat
Garhwal Post, 19 October 2006
JOSHIMATH, 18 Oct: This past weekend, the last of three international teams departed for Dharansi Pass as part of the Inaugural Nanda Devi Women’s Trek. Stopping over at eminent journalist Harish Chandola’s guest house near Auli, the group of four women including two Americans, a Canadian, and an Indian, [...]