Those were the days when the upscale residential district that includes what is now known as ‘Jhamel’ was so desolate that wolves and foxes roamed around freely once the sun...
Imagine visiting Vienna, the capital of classical music, the fabled land of prolific music composers, the land of Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and...
“It is the tiger of nursery rhymes, the tiger of nightmares, the tiger our imagination conjures when the word itself is spoken.” (Dane Huckelbridge) ...
There’s a place in Patan, near Kumaripati, where a fire has burned continuously for four-thousand years and more. Sound intriguing, right? However, when you come to know the name of...
It may come as a surprise to many to know or see the largest exhibition of Nepalese contemporary art, showcasing artwork from the 1950s till today, being exhibited...
If you are itching to read some of the best adventure stories from the Himalayas, this is it. Here you’ll find excerpts from over 40 sources of travel...
Beauty in chaos. A place where the shrieks of children playing are masked by thunderous revs of vehicles snaking, avoiding obstacles as they move towards their destination. Couples cuddling, friends...
The natural transitions from gloomy winter to spring is made visible by nature through the clearer blue sky and vegetation bursting into bloom, showing a path for movement and action....
‘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...
This small pond, which historically has had no cultural significance as such, lies at the center of a concrete jungle, in close proximity of City Center, the Russian Center for...
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...
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....
