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Nepal’s 1st hydroelectric plant is a museum piece

It was 6:30pm on 22 May 1911, and the sun had just set in Kathmandu when King Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah arrived...

US museum returns stolen Nepal god

The stone figure of Laxmi-Narayan had been worshipped at a shrine in Patan’s Patko Tole for 800 years. But on one night...

Portraying portraiture at Taragaon

The visitor to the Taragaon Museum is surrounded by faces: from large, realistic examinations of elderly men and women to symbolic portraits...

The art of living

Many of the everyday items Nepalis traditionally used in their homes are going or gone. So have the words that described them....

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