The Gangetic Dolphin: 'More on the Web of Ganga'
Visiting the city of Patna, in August 2017, marks the beginning of a new chapter for my Ganga research, sending my mind back to each of the journeys...
Issue 196 | March 2018
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...
Visiting the city of Patna, in August 2017, marks the beginning of a new chapter for my Ganga research, sending my mind back to each of the journeys...
Strolling down the nooks and gallis of Patan has never bored me, and I have always felt that I am familiar with most of the places here. For...
Art fairs are on the rise globally! With the turn of the new century, art fairs, biennales, and triennials have multiplied at an alarming rate. In 1970, there...
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...
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...
"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...
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,...
Holi The festival of Holi has gained a lot of popularity over the years, as many have turned this holy occasion into a time for having fun. Long before...
If just the aroma of freshly-made sweets and munchies in Shree Nanda Mithai Bhandar transports you to a different world, imagine how ecstatic you would feel when you...
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...
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...
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...
Perceval Landon, the British writer, journalist, and traveler, visited Patan in the 1920s and was enamored by its beauty. “As an ensemble the Durbar Square in Patan probably...
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 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...
“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...
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...