An Uphill Task: Learning Nepali
We were all gathered at Romae’s house in Baluwatar with RamDevi ushering us in and Romae playing host; Eva Gruenwald from Nevada and Charles and Romae Bush from Alabama...
Issue 56 | July 2006
A house tells the story of the changing needs of a person in various stages of his life. In a quiet corner in Baluwatar, had stood a house in...
We were all gathered at Romae’s house in Baluwatar with RamDevi ushering us in and Romae playing host; Eva Gruenwald from Nevada and Charles and Romae Bush from Alabama...
The scene is a farming village in Syangja District, late monsoon. Dasain is about ten days away. A group of more than 30 mandarin orange farmers gather around a vehicle...
As we drive past Boudha and head towards the eastern end of the Kathmandu valley, we come across a lush green forest. It is now a tiny oasis in what...
Kutumba is a band that comprises six very talented young musicians who opted for folk musical instruments, while their contemporaries were strapping electric guitars. “Folk Roots”, an instrumental album, opens...
Cultural Anthropology : A Contemporary Perspective (by Roger M. Keesing and Andrew J. Strathern) defines myths as “accounts about how the world came to be the way it is, about...
Time flies; the time keepers merely keep still themselves:they record the history of the places from where the time has taken flight. Even the most static of all the...
Every four years, a strange fever grips the nation along with the rest of the world, when people suffer from sleep deprivation and lack of concentration at...
When one thinks of visiting a spa,Lazimpat is not one of the locations that spring to mind, much less a restaurant just off the main street. Yet, there it is—The...
The traditional Hakku Patashi translates as black sari in common Newari dialect. True to its name, a Hakku Patashi is a simple, black sari with a distinct red border popular...
The elderly Ram Gopal Tamrakar is the owner of Tamot Traders in Tangal,Lalitpur and according to him, till only a few years ago, no Newar marriage was complete without the...