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July 13, 2021

My Life as a Himalayan Farmer

My name is Diwan Singh Mahara and I am 42 years old. I was born and brought up in a village called Udiyari, some 5 km […]
May 25, 2021

Chaukori: A perspective on the place and its people

April 28, 2021

Battling the COVID-19 Second Wave – An Update from the Hills

While the rest of India is struggling hard to control and contain the pandemic’s second wave, the Himalayan hills too have seen a rise in Covid […]
April 11, 2021

Devbala Bisht: The Lady at the Helm

Himalayan Inter College (HIC), located in the tea garden village of Chaukori, is a school that the Himalayan Education Foundation works closely with to bring quality […]
February 8, 2021

Aipan Art

Making Art in the Pandemic by Raj Kumar Aipan is an ancient painting style of Kumaon Himalaya. These paintings, done in red and white pigments, are […]
January 21, 2021

Kaaphal Hill – More than a home stay

How adventurer Tarun Mahara made his true home in the Himalaya by Raj Kumar The Himalayan mountains have fascinated people for millennia. They are home to […]

HIC Alumni

July 21, 2022

Palak Bankoti : To make affordable medicines for a healthier world

Himalayan Education Foundation (HEF) encourages girls in the rural Himalayan communities to aspire to higher professional goals.  HEF has been providing scholarships for promising girl students […]
May 2, 2022

Sony Thakuni: Programming for a better future

Sony Thakuni is a native of  Munsiari, a remote frontier town near the Indo-Tibetan border in Kumaon. Overlooking Panchachuli snow peaks in the greater Himalaya and […]
March 19, 2022

Deepak Karki : Writing and dreaming in Delhi

Deepak Karki is a man with many hats. Writing for online media, playing music, crafting poems, making videos about village life in the Himalayas are some […]
February 17, 2022

Dimpal Rawat : Aiming high in the corporate world

Dimpal Rawat graduated from Himalayan Inter College (HIC) in 2017 and is presently pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Dehradun. She is a recipient […]
February 17, 2022

Bhawana Mehra : Seeing the world through a physicist’s lens

Bhawana Mehra is a graduate of Himalayan Inter College (HIC), Chaukori and a recipient of a scholarship from Himalayan Education Foundation. At present she is studying […]
January 6, 2022

Pramesh Tamta : How stars are made

We are delighted to introduce Pramesh Tamta, who is currently pursuing a PhD in Astrophysics while working as an assistant professor in Physics at Soban Singh […]