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Issue 137 | April 2013

Unfinished...

Someday I’ll be the artist formerly known as starving. (Fred Babb, contemporary American artist) At the London home of Nepali artist Lain Singh Bangdel, late 1950s − She’s...

Class Wars

Class Wars

Regular and peaceful transfer of power is a rare event in Nepal. If history is to be the judge, violence has always been the key variable that has brought people...

The Lama Artist

The Lama Artist

The early years of Dorjee Karmarong’s life read like something out of one of the Himalayan folktales that the artist has illustrated in book form over the course of his...

Unified Sources

Unified Sources

With different names at different places for different people, the flow of the Ganga from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal is poetically symbolic of human life. When...

Marcos Duprat:Diplomacy and Art

Marcos Duprat:Diplomacy and Art

Brasil’s Ambassador to Nepal is also a methodic artist whose travels do not influence his art. Whether or Nepal made an impression, only his work here as an artist will...

Lifestyles of  the humble and pious

Lifestyles of the humble and pious

Can we learn from our ancestors and delineate a universal perspective, that defines us as Nepali firsts and our ethnic identities second? A few days ago, I found myself running...

Wheel Misadventures

Samsara entertains with an offbeat look at Nepal It’s bad enough to be broke and working for a drug dealer. But when the pusherends up on the business end of...

Open your mind

Open your mind

It was in 1999 that Nutan Singh-Schäfer was asked by her employer, the Goethe Institute in Kathmandu, to do a translation work on the literary opus of German poet Goethe....

Borrowed Festivals

Borrowed Festivals

Of the many festivals Nepali people celebrate, some are obligatory, others are borrowed. Nepalese love their festivals. No doubt about it. The fact that Nepal can be called a...

Moving beyond dance

Moving beyond dance

Part Nepali, part Chinese, Indian classical dancer Charles Ma started dancing because someone told him he couldn’t. He hasn’t stopped since. Charles Ma was born and brought up in...

Unpredictable wake-up calls

Unpredictable wake-up calls

Most visitors excitedly look for wild things in Bardia. Other times the wilderness comes to the visitor. Sparks rose to the night sky from the big fire. Lewis, a Scotsman,...