सर्दियों ओर लोहड़ी कि कुछ बातें

सर्दियाँ आख़िर आ ही गयीं। इस समय रात का एक बजा है और कडाके की ठण्ड पड़ रही है।  इस ठण्ड में आख़िर नींद कहाँ आने वाली है। सोचा क्यों न कुछ लिखा जाए। सर्दियाँ आते ही मुझे अपने गाँव कोटगढ़ की याद आती  है। बचपन में स्कूल की छुट्टियां सर्दियों में ही होती थी। [...]

Vanishing cultures of Himachal

Changing values and practices are threatening Pahari language, music, dance and lifestyle. Unless the authorities wake up to document the unique heritage, it may pass into oblivion without a trace, writes Vijay K. Stokes who happens to be a grand son of Late Sh. Satya Nand Stokes, father of Apple revolution in Himachal Pradesh. In [...]

New Look!

It is a season of new looks so given a new look to the blog too. In fact it was long overdue. The older one stayed for almost an year. I had messed up with the sidebars and they were never aligned. The new theme looks a little organized. Being not a programmer myself, it [...]

The anonymous samaritans

It was a short visit to Chandigarh to collect computers from IT park which were being donated by a company to set up a small computer center at my village at Kotgarh. The plan is to set up these in the local Govt high school.

This has been a Voice of Himachal (VOH) initiative. Thanks to [...]