A Boy from Siklis : The life and Times of Chandra Gurung

Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 daysAuthor: Manjushree ThapaPublisher: PenguinYear: 2009Language: EnglishPages: 226ISBN/UPC (if available): 9780143065487 Description‘It was in Chandra’ Nature to constantly woo support – Not by Exhorting people to Join his cause, but by working hard, and playing hard, and offering them a chance to join in. In between, he discussed bracing issues, asked Questions, Gossiped, Shared colorful anecdotes and Bawdy tales.’In the last days of the monsoon in 2006, a helicopter crash in Nepal’s eastern hills claimed some of the country’s best, including the charismatic environmentalist Chandra Gurung.Starting with his birth as the son of the headman of the small village of Silks, Manjushree Thapa follows the arc of his career as he achieved one democratic breakthrough after another in a conservation movement under royal patronage, where the royal family expected environmentalists to pander to their every whim.Offering a histori