Rabi Thapa

A Place in Patan

A Place in Patan

Mar, 2018 Issue 196 Rabi Thapa

I spent most of my early years in the northern half of the KathmanduValley. Much of this was within the brick walls of Budhanilkantha School, which sprawls at...

A Tale of Two Dahas

A Tale of Two Dahas

Jul, 2010 Issue 88 Rabi Thapa

A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. (Henry David Thoreau, Walden,...

Gokyo

Gokyo

Jul, 2010 Issue 87 Rabi Thapa

At Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport awhile back, when I saw all those tourists headed to Kathmandu, I wondered why so many of them were ready-pressed and dressed like they...