Bhairav Aryal is one of the best-loved essayists of the modern age, writing from the 1950's till his untimely death in the 1970's. He was a satirist who commented on the absurdities of modern Nepal, ...

Kathmandu Valley is where mythology and geology intertwine. The former holds that the Tibetan saint, Manjushree, flew down to Kathmandu. Upon seeing the huge lake, he cut the Chobhar ridge in half ...

Prithvi Narayan Shah built the imposing fortress palace in Nuwakot in 1762 as he swept eastwards towards Kathmandu Valley as part of the conquests that led to the formation of the nation state of ...

Austrian architect and filmmaker Götz Hagmüller sits on his porch not far from the collapsed temple at Bhaktapur’s Dattatreya Square and picks up a thick portfolio map full of articles and stories ...

Hundreds of people participated in a rally organised by the ‘No Thanks I Carry My Own Bag’ initiative to celebrate the government ban on plastic bags On 14 April, hundreds of people participated in a ...

Sweat trickling down her face, brow furrowed in concentration, Sabita Chaudhary steers her power transplanter with precision, seeding paddy in neat rows on a flooded field. The seedlings are stacked ...

Almost everyone knows that Nepal is the home of the Kumari, but very few have heard that in Kathmandu Valley, two boys also are Living Gods. Tucked away in a narrow alley in the Pako and Om Bahal ...

The new translation of History of the Kings of Nepal- A Buddhist Chronicle aims to correct the mistakes and fill the gaps found in the earlier translation. For a long time, the prevailing notion among ...

A few days after Christmas of 1952, Paul W. Rose, the highest-ranking American based in Nepal, left Kathmandu with several Nepali, American, and European colleagues for a reconnaissance trip to ...

Nepal's conflict had been going on for four years, the violence was spreading out from the Maoist ‘base areas’ of the mid-western mountains to other parts of the country. Teachers, farmers, students ...

In 1989, the Rajiv Gandhi-led government imposed an economic blockade against Nepal because of a dispute over transit treaties and its uneasiness over Nepal’s growing closeness with China. As the ...

Let’s talk about commitment: it is a big deal because it means you made a promise to the other person to stay together, which may or may not work out. But while someone is in a committed relationship, ...