Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201c\u2018The Chinese are planning a series of Himalayan dams of such worrying scale that they must be halted\u2019\u201d <\/b>published in The Times of India <\/b>on 17th November.<\/b><\/p>\n
Syllabus<\/span><\/b>: GS 1 \u2013 Geographical features and their location changes in critical geographical features.<\/p>\n Relevance<\/span><\/b>: About the features of the Himalayas.<\/span><\/p>\n News<\/strong>: John Keay has written about the mountain range since the 1960s. Recently, he has written a book titled \u2018Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World\u2019.<\/p>\n -In Tibetan mythology, the great peaks are persons, or rather they are deities. They constitute a society of gods who commune, fight and even mate among themselves.<\/p>\n Himalayan mountain pilgrimage<\/strong>: From Nanga Parbat in the West to Mount Kailas and Tsari in Tibet, Hindus, Buddhists and even Muslims go around the sacred peaks seeking intercession, merit and guidance.<\/p>\n Local communities know how to coexist<\/strong>: The technologies locals favour are best suited to their physical circumstances, like micro hydro projects and the frozen water towers being trialled in Ladakh.<\/p>\n They pioneered glaciculture <\/strong>in the Karakorams of Gilgit-Baltistan. Under it, farmers dependent on glacier melt have learnt how to seed new glaciers by artificial insemination.<\/p>\n Chinese dams need to be stopped<\/strong>: In Pemako in SE Tibet, the Chinese are planning a series of dams which will divert the waters of the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra from Assam to northern China. These can produce three times the electrical output of Yangtse\u2019s Three Gorges Dam.<\/p>\n Similar scale dams are being built on the Indus near Chilas where \u201can average of 300 earthquakes in a single month\u201d is reported. However, vital to \u201cdevelopment\u201d, these projects have to be stopped to protect the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201c\u2018The Chinese are planning a series of Himalayan dams of such worrying scale that they must be halted\u2019\u201d published in The Times of India on 17th November. Syllabus: GS 1 \u2013 Geographical features and their location changes in critical geographical features. Relevance: About the features of the Himalayas.… Continue reading \u2018The Chinese are planning a series of Himalayan dams of such worrying scale that they must be halted\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,10496],"class_list":["post-214766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704872165},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are the major highlights of his book on the Himalayas?<\/h5>\n