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The King and I

Former Gurkha officer decorated by King Charles for 25 years of charity work in Nepal

Beginning of the end of the Gorkha Empire

Nepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a month retracing the Gorkha expansion beyond the Mahakali River more than 200 years ago. The...

Atom bomb saved his life, Covid killed him

A Nepali soldier in the British Army who was captured by the Japanese during the fall of Singapore, and survived four years...

The time has come for a Gurkha Peace Corps

It is now more than 200 years that men from Nepal have joined the British Army to fight, if needs be, in...

Lest we forget

The centennial of the Armistice this week is an occasion to gauge the scale and significance of Nepal’s involvement in World War I....

They shall not grow old

Young and confident faces smile into the camera, eager to enlist in a war that has just broken out after the assassination...

Hanging out with the headhunters

How experience in eco-tourism development in Nepal came handy in Borneo

Lisa Choegyal

A military-migrant economy

 Families enable ex-Gurkhas to continue global private security workThe martial history and reputation of Gurkhas is well known in Britain and Nepal....

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