Spilled Ink

Fig 1: Dhruba Bhakta Mathema with his first grandson and family While reading the recently published Life and Times of Dhruba Bhakta Mathema, two pages near the end...

“From the very first page the book starts like historical fiction. The story of Adi Bhakta and his family is the saga of two brothers, the elder a revolutionary who...

123 years ago this month, on December 1, 1896, Buddha’s birthplace was ‘discovered’ in the Nepal Tarai. If you’ve read much about Lumbini, you may know that two...

Bangdel’s ‘Struggle for Democracy’ (1991) Three decades ago, at the time of the 1990 Jana Andolan, Nepal’s ‘People’s Movement’ for Democracy, Lain Singh Bangdel was inspired to...

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ~Picasso On a...

After graduating in 1945 with a degree in Fine Arts from Calcutta, the young man who was destined to become Nep­al’s best-known artist of the 20th century turned...

The Nepalese artist Lain Singh Bangdel (1919-2002) was a prolific painter who favored figurative art, landscapes, and abstract expressionism. Figurative art represents or symbolizes some aspect of reality....

“It is the tiger of nursery rhymes, the tiger of nightmares, the tiger our imagination conjures when the word itself is spoken.” (Dane Huckelbridge) ...

If you are itching to read some of the best adventure stories from the Himalayas, this is it. Here you’ll find excerpts from over 40 sources of travel...

‘The Earth’s Shell Has Cracked, and We’re Drifting on the Pieces’ read the startling headline in a recent issue of The New York Times. The earthquakes and aftershocks that...

By Don Messerschmidt Lain Singh Bangdel (1919-2002), Nepal's preeminent modern artist of the 20th century, would have been 100 years old this year. He was born on a tea...

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...