Table of Contents

Issue 196 | March 2018

Writer'sNotebook

Someone recently gave me an attractive, faux leather writer’s notebook. It’s a 90-page jotter the size of a large paperback book. The...

Making Every Flight Safe

Making Every Flight Safe

Even before any flight takes off, there are many operations that need to come together so that passengers can fly to their destinations. While passengers can see the...

Boutique Heritage Home

Boutique Heritage Home

Located within a four-minute walk from UNESCO Heritage site Patan Durbar Square, Boutique Heritage Home is atleast 200-year-old family owned four-storey houses which has been passionately renovated to...

Newa Chen

Newa Chen

"Mind your head," is what greets you when you enter through the small, low door. You'll have to bend down to enter, but once you do, you'll feel...

Experience Patan Like Never Before With Patan Heritage Walk

There was an idea to create something, to show others a place like it had never been seen before. And that's when it began, in 2017, the mission,...

Practical Preservation

Practical Preservation

An intelligent, pleasantly soft-spoken man, Dilendra Shrestha has done a lot in the Patan area that has been successful and is now widely emulated. I had...

Walk, Eat, and Do Good

Walk, Eat, and Do Good

The annual Miteri Chhatrabritti Kosh (MCK) Scholarship Walk is a representation of two of Nepal’s most apparent aspects: friendship and food. It provides an opportunity to, as the...

A Place in Patan

A Place in Patan

I spent most of my early years in the northern half of the KathmanduValley. Much of this was within the brick walls of Budhanilkantha School, which sprawls at...

Mitho Kura: Sweet Things

Against the backdrop of the Patan Museum stand six young people, spotlighted. When they start to play, the audience knows they are witnessing something truly different. Captured in...

Barbara Didi & Me

Barbara Didi & Me

Barbara Adams and I were friends for more than 30 years until her death in Kathmandu in April 2016, two days shy of her 85th birthday. She was...

Unforgettable Miss Hawley

Unforgettable Miss Hawley

“You go to your hotel, and as you are checking in, the phone is ringing, and the man behind the desk says, ‘Hawley wants to talk to you.’ You’ve barely...

Master Craftsmen of Lalitpur

Master Craftsmen of Lalitpur

Patan, also known as Lalitpur, truly deserves to be called the “City of the Arts”. It has numerous skilled craftsmen, and it is obviously impossible to include them all in...