Bedrock of Buddhism
Restoring Itumbaha also saves the Valley’s intangible monastic heritage
book-review
Rebuilding better than before
Rohit Ranjitkar’s book is a pictorial documentation of the restoration of Kathmandu’s monuments after the 2015 earthquake
“Ambedkar would have spoken out”
Project Syndicate talks with Shashi Tharoor an MP for the Indian National Congress and the author, most recently, of Ambedkar: A Life
In realms of the senses
We have all been taught in school that human beings communicate through only five senses: touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing. American...
A mine of stories from Gurja
This hidden village in the shadow of Mt Dhaulagiri is a microcosm of rural Nepal
Seriously funny political humour
The Soviets had just invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the Prague Spring pro-democracy movement. A year later, the Czechs were in...
It’s sink or swim for the Himalaya
The Himalaya is a hotspot in more ways than one. Climate breakdown is melting its ice at an unprecedented rate, countries that...
An archive of one’s own
What does it mean to have a book you can hold in your hands? It can mean having something to read — as simple...
Change on a Himalayan scale
German journalist Peter Hinze always had a fascination for the Himalaya, and later for trail-running. On one of his trips to Nepal, at...
A ray of hope for Nepal
Takashi Miyahara was a Japanese development worker who was first assigned to Nepal in the 1960s, when the powers he had ordained...
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