Awon's Calling Education
More than four decades ago, a handful of women living and working in Nepal decided to pool their efforts and create an organization dedicated to establishing a rapport among its...
Issue 20 | July 2003
To know the origins of the French School of Katmandou (le French spelling!), is to have some understanding of the incredible community spirit, which pervades in ‘La Vallee’. Back in...
More than four decades ago, a handful of women living and working in Nepal decided to pool their efforts and create an organization dedicated to establishing a rapport among its...
The Newari feast, the bhoye, is considered a unique tradition not only by foreigners, but even among the Nepalese. With numerous courses of meals and the famous aila, Newari feasts...
Among the many unique offerings of the small traditional Newar settlements in and around the three main cities in Kathmandu valley, the Tikanbaji (parched rice) of Tigani village has its...
Navin Chhettri seems a quiet, unassuming man, wearing his stocking cap, soft goatee, and wide-eyed but laid-back expression. But talking about jazz lights a fire in his eyes, and he...
“For three thousand years, Maithil women have painted the mud walls of their homes with scenes of legends of Hindu gods and goddesses. The art was temporary, however, because the...