Kailash
The Himalaya range in general and Mount Kailash in particular have inspired awe for anyone who has beheld them. People on all sides of the great mountains have regarded them...
Issue 138 | May 2013
, set out for the wonders of the Far East from his office in New York City, it was the fall of 1985. Though several of the countries on his...
The Himalaya range in general and Mount Kailash in particular have inspired awe for anyone who has beheld them. People on all sides of the great mountains have regarded them...
When I was approached to write a piece on the musical lifestyle in Kathmandu for this magazine, I had in my head a two-sided story that I could write about...
Hendrix, Jagger, Marley and The Beatles are all said to have visited Nepal. Legend puts two of them at one inn in Jomsom. Any celebrity who ventured today into a...
It would have passed for anything but a bridge. But that is what it was. And it was the quickest way to escape the sheets of rain that had combined...
Nepal’s biggest band talk are all about representing the entire country with their music and collaborating with everyone from breakdancers to international artists. Kutumba — which means kinship in...
Only with a folk music revival are Nepali music lovers realizing that folk music had in fact never really gone away. The cultural scene in Nepal today is an excellent...
George Schaller is a field biologist with a lifelong passion for large animals. His research has taken him to Alaska, Africa and Asia, including Nepal and Tibet. Schaller’s writings describe...
Interest in owning pigeons has changed from a mere hobby to a serious passion for many locals. Chandra Man Shrestha involved himself in the pigeon breeding business about 35...
It’s the morning of Holi; a relentless calm pervades Kathmandu’s streets exacerbated by the sinister absence of people. That is till the sun rises past the 3 story houses and...
The story of how a “little doctor” from Helambu made it big. There are people who dream and then there are people who turn their dreams into reality. Tshering...