While the Gods Were Sleeping gives non-Nepalis a glimpse of the real Nepal, and gives Nepalis an outsider's perspective
Sonia Awale
Released this week, Thomas Bell’s Kathmandu follows his past decade in Nepal’s capital
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When even sex has gradually stopped being a taboo, British journalist Rose George goes boldly where few men (and women) have dared to tread to…
The Great Tamasha, Cricket, Corruption, and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India by James Astill, Wisden Sports Writing, 2013, INR 399…
Shanta Chaudhari joins other women who have written about their struggles
The Kingdom at the Centre of the World: Journeys in Bhutan, by Omair Ahmad, Aleph Book Company, 2013 We have come to expect production values…
The author's new collection of translated poetry, ‘A Person Kissed by the Moon’
Two books on the monsoon to read while rain drops keep falling on your roof
Anil Chitrakar’s book infuses hope into Nepal's cynical and negative public sphere
Tsering Dolker Gurung
The book gives us a glimpse of the Nepal’s remote western region’s rich cultural heritage
This book is a frontal assault on the commercialisation of mountaineering
This book represents the combined efforts of the region’s finest field biologists, including Nepal’s red panda expert Pralad Yonzon
In 2010, a flash flood hit northern Afghanistan and damaged a 165-year-old public bath house, Hammam Khist-i-Kopruk. Life of an Afghan Hammam…
When Prajwal Parajuly’s The Gurkha’s Daughter rapidly flew off the shelves (it’s already in its first reprint) and garnered rave reviews…
Lil Bahadur Chettri is 80 and hardly knows the country of his ancestors, even though he has written with emotion and accuracy the pain of…
Madhav Acharya Under a blue sky in the summer of the year 1978 Nepal waited the arrival of a celebrity guest from its neighbour to the north.…
