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History on canvas

Depicting through paintings the unification of Kathmandu Valley before Prithvi Narayan Shah

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...

Air-brushing history by toppling statues

For thousands of years, adulatory statues have been installed and, at one time or another, defaced or removed. Even since the early...

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