Nepali Kukur

Late-night Buddhas

photo: Deep Samsher Rana We were on the way to a Patan pasni when we first saw them. Two huge Buddha busts on man-sized frames on the road…

Wedekind's wunderkinder

Intrigued by the premise of the late 19th-century play 'Spring Awakening' by German expressionist Frank Wedekind and curious about how far…

The best a man can get

As an autonome of sorts, I sometimes miss being pampered. Or, at the risk of sounding like a Britisher who defends the miserly quota of sunshine…

Larsson’s millions (Kreadle)

Krea•dle | krē•dle | noun a superficial review of a book based on a speed read of a free sample delivered to a Kindle, occasionally supplemented…

Hungry eye - Black Pepper

For me, Jhamel arrived not when St. Mary's Lane was overwhelmed by the attack of the restobar clones. It happened when trendy Black Pepper Cafe…

Hungry eye - Cafe Cheeno

Café Cheeno announced itself to Patan Dhoka a couple of years back, and despite the attractive brick façade emergent on the corner with…

Hungry eye - Bu keba

Riding Kathmandu's organic bump is Sanepa's Bú Kebá, and if you imagine that means a convenient marriage of the rustic and the comfy for the…

Hungry eye - Momotarou

If you know Jhamel, you'll know Singma, the no-frills Singaporean-Malaysian eatery that's now branched out into Bhatbhateni. And if you've…

Hungry Eye - Jardin, Jhamel

Nepalikukur Off Jhamel's 'restaurant lane', Jardin is one of a flotilla of upmarket eateries that have mushroomed this side of the river in the…

Hungry Eye - Kaiser Cafe, Thamel

It was Friday night, but early as we were, we had Dwarika's Kaiser Café Restaurant & Bar almost wholly to ourselves. All the better to…

Kicking Kirtipur

It would appear that Kirtipur, the small town south-west of Kathmandu, has finally hit the big time. First it was the success of the…

Jaipur Literature Festival: Day 5

A generalised mental exhaustion was apparent on the fifth day. Four days of browsing some of the best minds of our time; four nights of dousing…

Jaipur Literature Festival: Day 4

Whether to write in one’s mother tongue or an ‘imperial’ one is a debate that has been going on for as long as postcolonial literatures have…

Jaipur Literature Festival: Day 3

There’s a story Ruskin Bond tells the audience that is illustrative of just how things have changed in the world of publishing, currently…

Jaipur Literature Festival: Day 2

Eschewing the more obvious themes presented by headliner sessions such as ‘Why Books Matter’ (with Patrick French, Kiran Desai et al), I…

Jaipur Literature Festival: Day 1

Jaipur seems bigger and more anonymous every time I return. The Jaipur Literature Festival, too, is Rajasthani welcome to the Jaipur Literature…

Jaipur Literature Festival 2011-I

Day Zero A I didn’t see any monkeys at Tribhuvan International Airport – the exiles from Pashupati have been an attraction of late for…

Make a jazz noise

Jazzmandu’s flashed past once more, without last year’s dilemma of having to choose it over its cousin, the Himalayan Blues Festival. Even made…

Planet Nepal down at earth

Despite the distractions of Jazzmandu, I made my way to Patan Durbar Square before Tihar to catch the first evening of the Planet Nepal dhamaka,…

Hungry Eye - Le Cordon Bleu in Nepal

As we entered the cosy, cluttered space of an eatery in Sanepa, we were led to sofas fronted by tables of heavy wood, on which thick slices of…

Nepali men have always sought relief from the humdrum of the household hearth in bhattis, high and low. Here, they talk politics and crack jokes over a whole range of alcoholic beverages, from chyaang and raksi to Signature whisky and Tuborg Beer

Stuff Nepali people like - I

There are many ways of defining a nation, and Nepal's had a harder time than most in recent times. The sheer diversity of Nepali identities,…

Thirsty gullet - Kilroy's of Kathmandu, Thamel

The only thing I'd ever noted about Kilroy's of Kathmandu was the large, slightly ridiculous advertising board on the left as you enter Thamel,…

Hungry Eye - Ramalaya Tea Room, Panipokhari

If you're beyond the wide-eyed excitement of seeing restaurants and cafes crop up in the Valley like no one's business, and have realised with…

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