Thoughts on the Meaning of Life from reading Dhruba Bhakta Mathema's biography
Fig 1: Dhruba Bhakta Mathema with his first grandson and family While reading the recently published Life and Times of Dhruba Bhakta Mathema, two pages near the end...
Fig 1: Dhruba Bhakta Mathema with his first grandson and family While reading the recently published Life and Times of Dhruba Bhakta Mathema, two pages near the end...
“From the very first page the book starts like historical fiction. The story of Adi Bhakta and his family is the saga of two brothers, the elder a revolutionary who...
Bangdel’s ‘Struggle for Democracy’ (1991) Three decades ago, at the time of the 1990 Jana Andolan, Nepal’s ‘People’s Movement’ for Democracy, Lain Singh Bangdel was inspired to...
The Nepalese artist Lain Singh Bangdel (1919-2002) was a prolific painter who favored figurative art, landscapes, and abstract expressionism. Figurative art represents or symbolizes some aspect of reality....
‘The Earth’s Shell Has Cracked, and We’re Drifting on the Pieces’ read the startling headline in a recent issue of The New York Times. The earthquakes and aftershocks that...
By Don Messerschmidt Lain Singh Bangdel (1919-2002), Nepal's preeminent modern artist of the 20th century, would have been 100 years old this year. He was born on a tea...
Bhupi Sherchan died thirty years ago, in 1989, and Michael Hutt’s biography of the famous Nepalese poet was published almost a decade ago. It is time to revisit his life...
"Birds from different species recognize each other and cooperate. Researchers show for the first time how birds from two different species recognize individuals and cooperate...
Why do writers write? And what’s the value a good story or book? The answers are as varied as the weather! Writing comes in many forms-fiction, nonfiction,...
Wow!What pleasure. What luxury. And what relief, after a month trekkingrough on mountain trails in Solu District east of Kathmandu and in Gorkha, at the west. We were a party...
On January 15, 1850, Prime Minister Jang Bahadur Rana set off from Kathmandu on the first state visit by a Nepalese leader to England. His entourage of 42...
Sometimes you encounter strange and unexpected oddballs on the sidelines of history. In December 1850, while returning home from their historic tour of Victorian England (the first...