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Issue 133 | December 2012

Tittle-tattle and other banal banter

“There are known knowns, there are thing we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns, that is to say we know there are some things we do...

Nepali art across seven seas

Nepali art across seven seas

The World Bank has been organizing art exhibitions globally since 2007. An open call invites artists from the selected regions to participate and send in their entries. The artwork is...

Abstract of an artist

Abstract of an artist

The source of any art form worth serious consideration or contemplation has to be profoundly pure and honest. In Puran Khadka’s latest paintings The Conscious Self –Wholeness, one finds that...

Muna Madan

Muna Madan

“It would be all right if all my works were burned, except for Muna Madan,” the Nepali poet Lakshmiprasad Devkota is reported to have said on his deathbed in 1959....

The 8th primate in the forest

The 8th primate in the forest

The small Hoollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary (21 sq.km.) is surrounded by tea estates in NE India’s state of Assam. It is entered on foot along a narrow lane. We arrived...

Human Ego

Human Ego

In 1888 New York was struck by a very powerful blizzard and the city managers decided that the best response would be to move many city services and utilities underground...

Under the same cliff

At the Sheshnarayan temple, near the medieval town of Pharping, under a cliff face are the revered sites of two different yet intertwined faiths; yet another example of the co-existence...

The spiritual way

The spiritual way

Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche is a lineage holder of the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) tradition. He has spread his teachings all over the world and has re-established the Shyalpa monastery and nunnery...

A royal heartbreak

A royal heartbreak

If you look for Kathmandu on Google Earth, one historical monument will stand out distinctly. You will see a green patch amidst a chaotic maze of buildings and as you...

Need a cuppa good Karma?

Need a cuppa good Karma?

Less than a year since its opening, Karma Coffee has already expanded beyond one sukul and three cushions to an entire showroom full of top-of-the-line equipment, custom-designed furniture and artwork...

Living Fully

Living Fully

In his bestseller book “Living Fully: Finding Joy In Every Breath, Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche offers insights into what might constitute to living a happy and satisfactory life. A compilation of...