Live at the Vajra: Traditional Newa Music
Enraptured by the music, we reveled in the various traditional Newari tunes played at the Hotel Vajra. A presentation of “Tanani Bajan Khala” is staged here every Sunday at...
Issue 50 | January 2006
It was the morning of Pema’s wedding day in Brabal, a small village in Langtang National Park. She is my niece and 21 years old this year. Dharma, my...
Enraptured by the music, we reveled in the various traditional Newari tunes played at the Hotel Vajra. A presentation of “Tanani Bajan Khala” is staged here every Sunday at...
Recently a group of environmentalists SSAY has opened ‘The Organic Village’ often called TOV for short in Baluwatar near the Chinese Embassy, and is essentially a market outlet for...
The album is the brainchild of Shyam Nepali who plays the sarangi and has composed all the tracks. The album has Rabin Karki Dhali on violin, Manose Singh and Umesh...
Why keep a dog and bark yourself all the time? Pet culture is growing at a fast pace in Nepal, but awareness on the subject is still at its...
His heart wept as he bid fare well to his expecting wife and two daughters at Bholegaon in Rasuwa, to work as a team leader for porters. Aged 27,...
Happiness is not achived by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. - Aldous Huxley Her compassion has Olga Murray making a remarkable difference...
Ringo Starr played it, Steven Segal and Stephanie Powers have played it and the 13th Duke of Argyll has been leading the Chivas Regal team three years in a...
Sati is the ancient tradition where the widow, mistresses and female servants used to take their own lives by jumping into the funeral pyre of a deceased man. A group...
A social worker, Shobha Rai who was working as a volunteer in an NGO, was shocked when she was faced with a disturbing reality: “I had only been a...
In her award-winning book, On the Edge of the Auspicious,Mary S. Cameron focuses on a “little-understood” group in South Asian ethnographic studies lower caste Nepalese women. Although people of “low”...
It is the third day after Dashain and a gathering of Malla family members waits inside the Taleju Bhawani temple of Bhaktapur. This Goddess has been the patron deity of...