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Subash Thebe Limbu, NINGWASUM (still), 2021. Photographer, Manish Tamang. © Subash Thebe LimbuIn this bold and beautiful film by Indigenous…
Twenty years ago, in December 2000, a group of four anthropologists and historians at the University of Cambridge embarked on a project to…
Retailing for Rs20 and running to a full 20 pages, the ‘demo issue’ of the Nepali Times, NT #0, was printed and distributed in early July 2000…
In this impressively detailed and visually arresting study, Mohan Pant makes a convincing scholarly case for why social and cultural traditions…
In Bridging Worlds, climber, businessman and philanthropist Pemba Sherpa teams up with writer James McVey to share his rags-to-riches story from…
Photo: Kunda Dixit SIGNS OF THE TIMES: A gate in Phidim of Panchthar put up by Limbuwan activists (left) and a traffic sign in Quebec.After many…
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It is a race against time to document and support Nepal’s increasingly endangered linguistic diversity
Mark Turin reviews Highway, a unique and searing film that deserves a place in Nepal’s film history
MARK TURIN "I hope members of different language groups may attend such a workshop and produce a book in their mother tongue. That way they…
Language is contentious, and the debate between national languages and mother tongues more so
Three new Nepal atlases are as interesting for what they tell as for what they miss
Kessar Lall's poems are as fresh as he is unpretentious
A Lhasa Newar family memoir documents the rise of two remarkable individuals
A Dutch artist collaborates with Kathmandu artisans for an exhibition of silver ornaments in London next week
'Sudden and violent political change has.been a recurrent part of the country's history'
Tracing Princess Bhrikuti's journey from Kathmandu to Lhasa in an air-conditioned Sajha Yatayat bus
A centre for Himalayan studies located in the plains
A classic fairy tale of triumph over social obstacles, mysterious creativity and the intervention of royalty
A delightful re-discovery of the Kadampa school of Buddhism
After 35 years, it is time to look back at the extraordinary accomplishments of the Kathmandu-based Nepal Research Centre.
The reflexive Himalayan travelogue, pensive and Buddhist-tinged, is a tried and tested formula. Classics, such as Peter Matthieson's The Snow…