Pouring concrete on rice fields
On Nepal’s annual Rice Day, a reminder about urban growth devouring paddy fields
On Nepal’s annual Rice Day, a reminder about urban growth devouring paddy fields
Nine years after the 2015 earthquake, Kathmandu has to ask: how safe are the new tall structures
When the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted food supply, Bijaya Manandhar, did not anticipate that her life would be ruined upside down.Her hometown of...
Over the last decades, Nepal’s socio-political transformation has led the country from an agriculturally-dependent rural nation to a country with expanding urban...
This spring, northern India saw the hottest March since records started being kept 120 years ago, and this week people in the Indo-Gangetic plains are bracing themselves...
What drives Nepal's singular obsession with owning a house?
Every spring Kathmandu turns into a city of flowers blooming with jacaranda and bougainvillea. People wait year-round to escape the otherwise dull...
Nepal’s capital stank for more than a fortnight before Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) decided to resume garbage collection this week with the...
Kathmandu Valley’s geography gives it several strategic advantages. It is too high for malaria, but too low for much snow and ice....
By any measure, the past year has been disastrous for Nepal. The Covid-19 lockdowns devastated the economy, the 2020 monsoon killed a...