Taxidermy in Nepal
Taxidermy means ‘skin arrangement’, from Greek. The art of taxidermy has existed for a fair amount of time, and was raised to special heights during the 19th century when hunters...
Issue 88 | March 2009
In 1952, the noted ornithologist S. Dillon Ripley published a remarkable little book on bird-hunting in Nepal, entitled Search for the Spiny Babbler. As bird-watching is this month’s cover feature,...
Taxidermy means ‘skin arrangement’, from Greek. The art of taxidermy has existed for a fair amount of time, and was raised to special heights during the 19th century when hunters...
A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. (Henry David Thoreau, Walden,...
If your profession is also your passion, the one thing you will never have to bother about is a retirement plan. Though, only few people realize what they want to...
The Deception Point The temple complex in Bhagwan Bahal, just a stones throw away from the bustling hubbub of Thamel, ‘looks’ like any normal temple populating Kathmandu. It...
These are trying times for anything that walks on four legs, has a tail, or flies. And not having a voice hurts (humans are not listening anyway). This is the...
Kalinchok? Beware! she declared. Isolated and heavily forested, she meant that the trail to Kalinchok is fraught with unthinkable hardships and danger. “And mind you,” she went on,” it’s...
To the remote jungle hermitage of a renowned meditation master in Sri Lanka come a young American monk looking for a fast track to liberation, an overweight middle-aged Sri Lankan...
“Thomas Friedman, the foreign-affairs columnist of the Times, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and the best-selling author of reassuring books about unsettling things, finished his column... while sitting at a...
Where in the world can you see so many birds? Nepal is a major destination for amateur bird-watchers and professional ornithologists alike. It boasts an immense variety of birds and...