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Nepali society seeks personalities, symbols, monuments and events that unite us as a nation. One such iconic personality of the land is the poet and writer Laxmi Prasad Devkota. This...

It’s nearly midnight, but Ram Krishna Tamrakar is not sleeping, nor is Hari Man Shrestha.Unlike the scores of people who have just turned up to watch the final dramatic dance...

"I want to ride my bicycle." -Queen, the Singer Push to the max, persevere,struggle constantly to top your last record or to best the com petition. These are the marks...

Forty-four years ago this month Nepal suffered its last great smallpox epidemic, an extension of an outbreak ravaging North India. When village leaders approached district officials to do something about...

When ECS asked me to write about my grand-father, late Dwarika Das Shrestha, I did not realize how difficult it would be. For most of my childhood, Dashain and other...

Wherever you go in Kathmandu you en- counter the people’s detailed analysis of the political realities that have set in the country. There’s one more thing you cannot escape. So,...

What is it that tourists seek in Nepal? And, how is it that the Nepalese are so good at attracting tourists to come? These are two of the questions...

There is a neat little shop around the bend from Sanepa Chowk (near Patan, Lalitpur) next to the Shuvatara School. It is called ‘Quilts and Things’. When you enter, your...

New is strange and may excite our senses, but there is com-fort in things old. We felt that way when we heard familiar tunes played and sung by...