The Canvas of her life
The story of the person behind the persona of Jan Salter Sometime in the 80s, a British woman from Southampton travelled to Jakarta. While she was there,...
Issue 158 | January 2015
Objects of old become Proustian portals to a time that has all but come to pass. Memories have a strange power over people. There is no telling...
The story of the person behind the persona of Jan Salter Sometime in the 80s, a British woman from Southampton travelled to Jakarta. While she was there,...
A personal memoir of a conservationist on his first Red Panda sighting. I am writing this story about a day I will always remember. It was 11th...
Prabesh Roka and Dr. Raj Tripathi are risking five years of hard work. Their Himalayan gamble might pay off lavishly for Nepal. Visionary thinking and innovation are deserving of a...
A history junkie’s visit to Daha Chowk, a place where Prithvi Narayan Shah had set up a base camp before marching east into Kathmandu Valley. On this quiet morning...
Celebrating the first day of spring with a little bit (too much) of sweet. Every year it’s the same old story: my mum pounding on my door...
Swasthani brata is an annual Hindu festival in which women fast for their family’s prosperity. Every day for a month, family members also read a chapter from the Swasthani book,...
How do you inspire the masses? Show them movies in their own communities. When we took the Makhan Galli, a long time ago, my father told me...
It is winter in Thimphu, Bhutan. Pico Iyer is reading his favorite author, Graham Greene. It is something he has done several times over the decades since he...
On the remote hills of the Far- West, road building is a communal activity - not even the village shaman is left out. As we were travelling...
A green leaf fell from the tree just outside our boundary wall. It sailed confetti-like, twirling, dipping and rising a few inches, as though two invisible forces were...