Book Review
Times of war and peace
In Kathmandu, a capital city that lacks basic sanitation facilities, an elderly man from the Tarai is forced to take a roadside leak. A local man…
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Art & Literature
29 Stories
Land of her mother
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa uses poetry because words don’t suffice. As the first Tibetan poetess to be published in English, she transcends language and the barriers of space and time to return to her Phayul, her father land. Her first book of poetry Rules of the House was published in 2002, and other books came thick and fast: My Rice […]
The Kumari story
When Nepal opened up to the outside world in the 1950s and the first early tourists started coming in, they were mandatorily required to photograph cremations at Pashupati, monks in Boudha and monkeys on Swayambhu. The other must-see was the Kumari Temple, and the living goddess of Kathmandu soon became a subject of enduring fascination […]
Palpase Cafe: Fiction more real than fact
Nepal’s slide began with the beginning of the insurgency 10 years ago and it was after the royal massacre of 1 June 2001 that things really started hurtling out of control. The person with a ringside seat to all this is Narayan Wagle, the journalist who rose up the ranks to become the chief editor […]
Reviving Nepal’s Film Industry Still A Challenge
Kathmandu, Jan. 2: Nepali film industry has been one of the hardest-hit sectors by the COVID-19 pandemic. While all other sectors have almost returned to normalcy, the film industry is still struggling to resume business as usual.Ironically, the local theatres attract crowds of audience when they release Bolywood and Hollywood movies, but remain deserted when they […]
CNN Hero’s Children’s Home turns out to be ‘illegal’, investigation finds major problems within
Her intentions may have been noble and she may have received the US $110,000 CNN Hero of the Year 2015 Award for her service to Nepalese orphans but the very institution she became internationally renown for, ironically, turned out to be legally lacking. An investigation by the Department of Women and Children has apparently found out that the Kopila […]