Dal-bhat, the ultimate vegan food
With the climate crisis, people all over the world are suddenly conscious of what they eat. They are starting to ask: “Am I eating food which is not...
With the climate crisis, people all over the world are suddenly conscious of what they eat. They are starting to ask: “Am I eating food which is not...
Shravana, the month of monsoon rain and tender rice saplings, is eagerly looked forward to by Nepali women. The seedlings, which have been planted in Asar, are now...
Unlike the Western calendar, the Nepali New Year (and a host of other New Years all over Asia, from Thailand to Tamil Nadu to Bangladesh) starts on April...
I opened up Shradha Ghale’s “The Wayward Daughter,” expecting to find a social polemic about Brahminization, or a critique of the way Janjati groups discriminate against people from the Madhesh....
Ashmina Ranjit is one of Nepal’s most innovative artists. Working within the medium of performance art, she has staged multiple events related to democracy, conflict and peace, and the corporeality...
During the early 2000s, I had the opportunity to listen to a Nepalese UN official give a talk at the UN building in New York, during an occasion which I...
What struck me about the Taleju Bhawani myth was the dream. According to oral mythology, much retold, King Jaya Prakash Malla used to play dice with the Taleju Bhawani....
Reconstruction of heritage has risen to the top of priorities in the world of development post- earthquake. Even as the aftershocks continued to hit after the 2015 earthquake,...
Eating weeds, while something of a pastime in childhood, never occurred to me as a particularly good idea. Perhaps it was my Brahmin childhood, where food...
Shivaratri, or the night of Shiva, in my mind, is always associated with the Pashupatinath Temple. The temple was set away from human settlement for a reason—in the...
My family’s surname is “Joshi,” derived from jyotishi, or astrologers. According to family lore, they fled the Mughal invasion and came to Nepal via Nainital... My family’s surname is...
The day the earth shook mightily is a day few will ever forget, and none more so than writer Sushma Joshi, who had the misfortune of having her legs crushed...