Fresh Tastes in a Classic Setting
Within Patan Durbar Square, there is a café enriched by the ethnicity and charm of the area where it makes its home. Serving a wide range of Nepali and Continental...
Issue 207 | February 2019
The natural transitions from gloomy winter to spring is made visible by nature through the clearer blue sky and vegetation bursting into bloom, showing a path for movement and action....
Within Patan Durbar Square, there is a café enriched by the ethnicity and charm of the area where it makes its home. Serving a wide range of Nepali and Continental...
Chhyang is the rice alcoholic beverage brewed in homes of people from both the Nepali and Tibetan communities. In Nepal, brewing chhyang is more prevalent in the Newari culture, as...
Bhupi Sherchan died thirty years ago, in 1989, and Michael Hutt’s biography of the famous Nepalese poet was published almost a decade ago. It is time to revisit his life...
Most of us witnessed the recent festival of Maghee Sankranti, also referred to as Makar Sankranti, which is a cultural festival celebrated all over Nepal by numerous communities: the Brahmins,...
Ashmina Ranjit is one of Nepal’s most innovative artists. Working within the medium of performance art, she has staged multiple events related to democracy, conflict and peace, and the corporeality...
Intangible heritage is a phrase that’s been coming up more and more in Kathmandu these days, but what is it, exactly? Here’s one of the clearest—and I find rather beautiful—ways...
I am once again grateful to mighty Ganga for causing me to muse upon her cycle, thus offering me basic teachings of life. For when I see droplets of water...
After crossing the passes of the eastern region, I finally bumped into some local people in the Solu Khumbu region. They told me that the trail I was walking along...
In the beginning of human civilization, people had to fulfill their necessities through their own labor. In the course of time, the practices of barter system came into being, but...
I walk uphill along a straight, narrow, and unpolluted road that is surrounded by houses on both sides. With sounds of only the air blowing, I see creepers growing on...
1. Jholungepul The nearest jholungepul(suspension bridge) from Kathmandu city is the Tinthana Bridge in Kirtipur, which is about 10 minutes’ walk from Nayabazar. As you step foot on the...
If you go to the southern plains of eastern Nepal and ask for local snacks at roadside eateries, you’ll most probably be served a savory mixture of beaten...
Nepal, home to over than 800 species of birds, is unquestionably a bird watcher’s paradise. Many of these can be spotted even in the larger cities, though with the rapid...