Rendezvous With the Ranas
"Grave Incident At Narayanhiti Royal Palace" with unaccustomed oriental understatement proclaimed the headlines of one of Kathmandu’s Nepali dailies that published the horrific news of the demise of Nepal’s royal...
Issue 14 | January 2003
The woman at the tour desk of the Kathmandu Guest House handed me my tickets to Lumbini on Buddha Air “how appropriate”, I thought. I flew out late Saturday night...
"Grave Incident At Narayanhiti Royal Palace" with unaccustomed oriental understatement proclaimed the headlines of one of Kathmandu’s Nepali dailies that published the horrific news of the demise of Nepal’s royal...
Upon meeting Lama Orgyan you would barely that know he is a monk he looks more like a smiling Chinese Buddha, his eyes creasing into lines as he smiles, which...
With its empty echoing hall, framed pictures of former students hanging on the walls and the air of a building waiting to come to life, this office of the GAA...
Recently I met ‘Mummy’ Elizabeth Mendies (now in her 80s), who mentioned how she and Inger as young women squabbled over the tourists who arrived on the first ‘Fokkers’ from...
Glancing at the large dining table of the cluttered uptown Manhattan apartment, I notice a funereal white orchid occupying pride of place, a curved spray of cymbidiums planted in a...