Dovan
Nepal is drained by over 6,000 rivers. The spot where two rivers converge is called dovan and the confluence of three rivers is called triveni. Each of these spotsis regarded...
Issue 75 | February 2008
These questions have bugged writers for a very long time, and the debate goes on. Recently when I wrote about “the Nepalese language” Iwas corrected by an eminent South Asianlinguist....
Nepal is drained by over 6,000 rivers. The spot where two rivers converge is called dovan and the confluence of three rivers is called triveni. Each of these spotsis regarded...
Some believe it was divine intervention, and perhaps it was, because Nepal only began opening its doors to the foreign world and to the world of scientific medicine in the...
The best way to discover Kathmandu is through the eyes of a toddler. With a great sense of adventure and a strong tolerance for chaos, Kathmandu is a free-spirit’s haven....
Kathmandu is often said to be a town of temples. But,as is true for every great city around the world, it is also a town of tall tales. If unasked,...
A review of Sacred Landscape and Pilgrimage in Tibet: In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Bön, by Geshe Gelek Jinpa, Charles Ramble and Carroll Dunham, with photo-graphs by Thomas...
The billionth time you stare into the beauty-saturated eyes of this phenomenon named Kathmandu, you will always and every time discover those pearls of novelty, almost theatrical mosaics of life,...
In the days before Nepal had roads and airfields, officials, traders,landed gentry and ill patients traveled cross-country on horseback, getting off to walk on steep slopes in the high hills....
So still, so quiet... No crowds, dogs barking, busses revving or trucks honking. Was that an owl hooting softly off in the forest? In the early morning sit...
I live five minutes away from Bhatbhateni. My favorite place to shop in the area is—no, not the supermarket. Wrong guess. It’s Organic Garden. Set in a small Rana-style house...
‘This is your home, and when at home, you are free to do whatever you want and go wherever you wish’ Tucked away on the hilltop of...
In September 1967, young Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, when he was Crown Prince of Nepal, checked into Harvard University for a year’s study. He had already attended Eton in...