
Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Center
Ability to move hands and legs freely is one of the most prized of gifts endowed on the human body. A visit to the newly opened facility for rehabilitating the...
Issue 93 | August 2009
The Air France air hostess asked, “Café? Thé?” The tone of her voice was lilting and musical. “Thé, sil vous plait. Merci becoup !” I answered, glad to put into...
Ability to move hands and legs freely is one of the most prized of gifts endowed on the human body. A visit to the newly opened facility for rehabilitating the...
I am nameless and ageless, from some-where, anywhere,everywhere... I’ve placed these stones to mark my passage as a pilgrim in the snowy abode of the gods. I come from...
One of the good things about travelling alone, if travelling alone ever is good, is that you get to set your own pace. The other good thing is that you...
Sit in front of your friend and watch as she frantically waves her forefinger in front of your face saying “Machha machha maachha” (Fishy fishy fishy). Try to catch that...
Witness to a mystifying deed It was a few minutes past the mid-night hour. A pale yellow moon, full and round, cast its bewitcing radiance over the sleepingy. A few...
I gazed in amazement at the sight of the colossal structure that towered over me – the Karnali river bridge at Chisapani, in far west Nepal. A sheer diametrical contrast...
Who says life is always an easy affair; hearts get wounded, droughts last for years, imbroglios abound, there may be deals to be brokered, controversies to be defused, then there’s...
Provence, an area in the south of France, is synonymous with lav-ender. Rows of aromatic, purple lavender are iconic of that part of that land. The French, of course, are...
“We are from Tistung,” says Mina Maharjan, chairper son of the Makwanpur Ethnological Studies Group. Her office is in Bajrabarahi of Tistung and presently they are focusing on a study...
The Himalayan Mountains and its high plateau are responsible for at least 40% of the world’s water. Therefore is it any wonder that some of the world’s...
If you love plants, if you are intrigued by flower gardening or enjoy reading about bo-tanical exploration in the Himalayas and the adventuresome lives of botanists and foresters, then here’s...