Bookworm

This important collection of photographs evokes a forgotten era when the Kathmandu Valley was rural, verdant, and astonishingly empty of people. White...

From 1975 to 1979, Heinrich Meyer worked with the Bhaktapur Development Project, both as an architect and aiding in monument conservation. It was during this period that he...

From trekkers crossing ice fields to panorama of the Everest range at night, the sweeping photos that open the book invoke, in a most beautiful way, the epic sweep...

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...

Thamel’s growth through the years has been an extraordinary one, so much so that now it has achieved international recognition as one of the world’s exotic tourist hubs. Going through...

A chat with the author of ThamelThrough Time Recently, I had the chance to meet Benjamin Linder; the American has just written Thamel Through Time, put out by the...

After traveling to the Muktinath valley, located high up in the beautiful Annapurna Conservation Park, in Mustang, northern Nepal, Susan M. Griffith-Jones penned a beautiful spiritual travelogue combined with colorful...

Since opening up to the outside in the early 1950s, and especially after the arrival of Westerners in large numbers from the late 1960s...

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...

Buried in the Sky by Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan, published by W. W. Norton & Company The...

Lone Seeker Many Masters Author: Swami Anand Arun Truly a one-of-its-kind, Lone Seeker Many Masters is a book that takes one through a journey of a...