Amar B. Shrestha

Once out of Bhaktapur city, the Arniko Highway offers a great drive, with really great scenery all along the road. There’s serenity in the surroundings, you’ll agree. An...

This is the 200th issue of the country’s leader in culture and lifestyle publications—ECS Nepal—a milestone in every sense of the word. It has taken eighteen long years...

I was penniless. At last the good Lord had granted me one of my greatest wishes—to be literally on the sidewalk (footpath ma, as we say in Nepali, meaning, homeless,...

You’ll find huge crowds here during a major Hindu festival that’s held every year in February or March, as well as during another major festival in September. While the latter...

“I came here about four years ago along with my wife. She passed away four months ago,” says Mr. Raj Bahadur Manandhar, a sprightly 73-year-old who lives in...

It is literally the very center of the capital, and so it’s always a crowded place, with throngs all around crowding around the many...

Bhaktapur is a pretty ancient city that, from a bird’s eye view, is supposed to have the shape of a flying pigeon, and besides being the...

Here is an excerpt from the timeline of the Nepalese Civil War, mostly related to incidents that occurred in western Nepal. It makes for interesting reading, to say the least....

Patan, also known as Lalitpur, truly deserves to be called the “City of the Arts”. It has numerous skilled craftsmen, and it is obviously impossible to include them all in...

On the way to Swyombhunath Stupa, opposite the army hospital in Chauni, is an old Rana period durbar that has been the repository of Nepal’s history for the...

It was fortunate that a cousin’s daughter was getting married in Darjeeling. That gave me a good excuse and added incentive to make a headlong rush for the...

Buried in the Sky by Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan, published by W. W. Norton & Company The blurb on the cover, ‘The Extraordinary Story of...