Essays on Nepal: Past and Present by Sam Cowan

Essays on Nepal: Past and Present by Sam CowanSam Cowan first visited Nepal in 1966 when he trekked for two months in east and west Nepal. At the time he was on a three year tour as a junior officer with Queens Gurkha Signals in Borneo, Malaya and Hong Kong. During a long and distinguished career, until his retirement as a four star general in 2002, he performed numerous staff and command jobs culminating in the successive appointments of Inspector General of Army Training, Quartermaster General,

" Bulaki is a mini poetry book

the gradual settling of the pulp in a glass of apple juice or the wind blowing into the room and scattering papers about

While life is a do-it-yourself project

When Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy for the first time at a ball

Then comes the first ugly death and the end of all Alexander's doubts

the one who first perceived this emptiness

I fought every day for you

A resident of a Sherpa village writes a heartfelt account of the aftermath of an avalanche which killed porters and climbers on Everest and residents of Langtang record an oral history of the earthquake which wiped out their village

something truly

microwaves

It’s about how you behave

as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal