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Issue 198 | May 2018

So Close Yet So Far: Being a Nepali in India

When I first moved to India to study at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University over 17 years ago, I was struck by the strange questions fellow students asked me. “Do...

A Pilgrim's Tale

A Pilgrim's Tale

Traveling is something that I love doing, so going on pilgrimage has also been a natural undertaking for me. But the act of pilgrimage is not just traveling to a...

The Dream Weavers from WSDO

The Dream Weavers from WSDO

Ram Kali Khadka watches the women at work as their craft slowly takes shape. The lives of the weavers are much like the products they make. They gather...

Hone Your Climbing Skills

Hone Your Climbing Skills

While the fields of mountaineering and trekking have been large in Nepal for decades, gym-trained rock climbing as a sport is relatively new. Those more intense mountain sports...

Conservation is not an Impediment to Development

May 19, 2018, is the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Nepal country office of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). They’ve been supporting Nepal’s conservation efforts for...

A World of their Own

A World of their Own

“I came here about four years ago along with my wife. She passed away four months ago,” says Mr. Raj Bahadur Manandhar, a sprightly 73-year-old who lives in...

NEW DIMENSION

NEW DIMENSION

Art as we know it is not only a visual representation; it has social importance and implications. The multiple facets of art are numerous, the more I think,...