When Nepal opened up to the outside world in the 1950s and the first early tourists started coming in, they were mandatorily required to…
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News that among the nine people brutally slain by the Taliban at the Serena Hotel in Kabul on 20 March was Wasim Zaman came as a shock to the…
It has become the hallmark of political horse-trading in Nepal that the protagonists put the cart before the horse. It happens over and over…
The Golden Lion Tamarin is rescued from the brink of extinction in Brazil’s rainforest by protecting what is left of its habitat. Deep in the…
The rugged Canadian plane has been the workhorse of Nepal’s domestic aviation for four decades, but has suffered terrible attrition. The hardy…
तस्वीरः कुन्द दीक्षित दक्षिण एशियाको एउटा टापु मुलुक श्रीलंका र भूपरिवेष्टित नेपालबीच धेरै भौगोलिक भिन्नता छन् । तर, गृहयुद्ध खेपेर आएका यी दुई…
No matter how often you have heard about Istanbul being the city that straddles two continents, it is still a pleasant surprise to be in a…
With role in new Hollywood film, pilot-actor Vijay Lama’s life comes a full circle At age 50, Vijay Lama feels his two careers are merging…
Adjusting Nepal Standard Time to UTC +6:30 would not just save energy, but also replace the unscientific 15 minute time difference with India.…
The 19th century conflict between the Kathmandu Darbar and the British East India Company in Calcutta is often attributed to a clash over…
JON APPEL The new year marks two war centennials in Nepal: the 200th anniversary of theAnglo-Nepal War of 1814-16 and the start of the First…
The Himalaya in Nepal is the most-densely populated mountain region on earth. Its landscape is closely linked to land use patterns, especially…
Erwin Schneider was a mountaineer and a legendary map-maker, his meticulous chart of Mt Everest and other parts of the Himalaya made his surname…
When you cry wolf too often about a Himalayan catastrophe, people may tune out SEEING IS BELIEVING: Despite stark evidence of glacier retreat…
The centrist Nepali Congress and the UML shouldn’t see this as a winner-takes-all mandate Nepal’s silent majority has spoken, it has rejected…
Nepalis were disillusioned with the candidates on offer, not with democracy. That is the main take-home for the political parties. -- It was an…
Andreas Settje had a comfortable, well-paying job as a surgeon and a settled family life in Germany when, one day 15 years ago, he saw an ad in…
When media students in Nepal are asked what first comes to their mind about Bangladesh, most reply “poverty”, “floods” or “hartals”. Very few in…
Like most visitors to Kathmandu, Norwegian professor Vigo Brunn was fascinated by what the people of Kathmandu take for granted: the use of…
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…
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's tribute to her mother and the land of her ancestors. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa uses poetry because words don’t suffice. As…
Correspondents of The Economist are famous for being not famous. There are no bylines, and this stems from a strongly-held belief that attaching…
कुन चाहिं पेशा सबैभन्दा बढी बदनाम छ भनेर केही वर्षअगाडि अमेरिकामा एउटा मत-सर्वेक्षण गरेका थिए रे । नैतिक हिसाबले सबैभन्दा कमजोर मानिने वकील…
Rewinding to 1999 and the piece ‘Can the South Asian Toad Leapfrog’ was a sobering reminder of just how fast technology is moving forward, even…
