Beed Bytes: A Collection of Articles on the Nepali Economy and Business
“Who says Kathmandu is boring. It is positively hopping with action these days,” Artha Beed wrote in a 2001 column in the Nepali Times. It’s as true today...
Issue 85 | December 2008
When is a ‘resort’ not a fancy up scale holiday retreat? Back in 1952, the inveterate British traveler H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman (1898-1977), published his mountain travel book Nepal Himalaya. To...
“Who says Kathmandu is boring. It is positively hopping with action these days,” Artha Beed wrote in a 2001 column in the Nepali Times. It’s as true today...
When infants are born, almost all of their primary (baby) teeth already have formed. These teeth are still hidden in the gums. They usually begin to erupt or cut through...
May the divine Maharaja Sri Manadeva continue to direct us more than 100 years. This day, the wife of Samrat Grahapati, by name Vijyaswamini, set up the image of Goddess...
Despite many revolutions and years of chastising modern education, dis crimination based on class is present in the most developed of societies. Influence of class based discrimination, though, is not...
Time to catch up with Santa Claus! Does that ring bell?Then be at Hyatt and you won’t miss him. You might catch him snooping around Hyatt’s lobby lounge where the...
Sitting on the corner of the main temple complex, a pundit baje scans for an unadorned forehead.Any forehead without a tika is a business opportunity. Like numerous other bajes...
Where do the street children come from? What are they doing there? Who is to be blamed for their condition? Who is responsible for their future? Every time...
It is the risk-conscious that stand to gain more out of rock climbing then a fool-hardy adrenaline junkie. It is not something that you can just go down to Thamel,...
Religion can be a hard pill to swallow for people who have not grown up with it. There are too many dos and don’ts and there isn’t always a logical...
It is not quite possible to avoid visiting temples often when you live in a city like Kathmandu, well known as the ‘City of Temples’. It is said that at...
There’s a story that every Nepali school child knows,which teaches the virtues of charity, service and volunteerism. It describes a village grass cutter, materially poor but rich in spirit, who...
Music is not just expressing or communicating with notes. It is storytelling. At the recent International Folk Music Festival in Kathmandu, the audience heard stories of happiness and sadness, of...