Green Streets: The Trees of Kathmandu
While extending the road along Tundikhel a few years back, the Kathmandu Metropolitan office removed a Ginkgo biloba tree (fossil tree). The specimen, which was apparently imported from Japan more...
Issue 25 | December 2003
From urbanites’ viewpoint, art is a secluded activity, its fruits displayed at the Gallery de art. But for indigenous people like the Newars of Thimi, making and using art is...
While extending the road along Tundikhel a few years back, the Kathmandu Metropolitan office removed a Ginkgo biloba tree (fossil tree). The specimen, which was apparently imported from Japan more...
Nepal is famous for its festivals and the way in which these celebrations make the culture and traditions of the country a living reality. Chief amongst them, of course; are...
Acrew of eight hundred carvers, fifty master specialist carpenters, four master specialist masons, four skilled engineers, and twenty-five administrative and logistic personnel from Kathmandu, Patan, and Bhaktapur; most of them...
Matthieu Ricard is the son of renowned French philosopher-writer Jean Francois Revel. Originally trained as a scientist, he worked as a researcher in the cellular genetics department ...