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...
The months of July through October are referred to as the Chaturmas in Sanskrit, which according to the Hindu Lunar Calendar literally means four months. The deities of Hinduism...
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ~Picasso On a...
I find myself gradually closing my eyes whenever I am standing before this beautiful pond, overwhelmed by love for its raw untouched nature. The sharp chirping of the...
Festivals in Nepalese culture have multiple facets. They are not celebrated for religious reasons only, they are celebrated to be in harmony with nature, for one’s wellbeing as...
After graduating in 1945 with a degree in Fine Arts from Calcutta, the young man who was destined to become Nepal’s best-known artist of the 20th century turned...
Kathmandu is a city filled with traditional and famous temples that attract hundreds of people everyday, such as Swayambhunath, Boudhanath and those in the valley’s Durbar Squares, which...
The bust of a mustachioed gentleman wearing the traditional labeda with a sash over the right shoulder and a black rounded topi, holding a book in his right...
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....
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...
