Patan for beginners
New bilingual interactive maps to help Nepali students rediscover the heritage of historic kingdom
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Preserving Patan post-earthquake
Much of Kathmandu’s centuries-old architectural heritage was destroyed in 45 seconds on a Saturday afternoon in 2015. Many of the temples built by the Malla kings in...
A tale of three cities
Restoration of monuments damaged in the 2015 earthquake have been carried out differently in Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur, and this has depended...
Between the lines with Sujan Dangol
The artist shows us the loss of old Kathmandu Valley with his intense drawings of a densely-packed urbanscape.
Restoring a piece of Nepal’s history
When an 8.3 magnitude earthquake hit Kathmandu in 1934, a three-storey temple in Patan collapsed. Eighty-two years later, just as work had...
COVID-19 mutes Krishna festival in Kathmandu
Photos: Bikram Rai and Monika Deupala...
Our past is our future
Communities in Kathmandu Valley’s historic towns have revived age-old traditions and craftsmanship to rebuild after every earthquake in the past. The disasters...
Learning from Nepal's past to rebuild its future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csrbcdCBW4IIt has been nearly four years after the 2015 earthquake, and media reports about reconstruction of damaged buildings is mostly negative: compensation...
Marketing the intangible
Patan’s ongoing chariot festival is one of the most dramatic and instagrammable festivals in the world
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