January 2021
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The vagaries of fate
t was my Dr Zhivago fantasy period, and I had this wild idea that it would be compelling to travel solitary […]
January 3, 2021
December 2020
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Collateral benefits
Gurkhas on parade during the 2015 G200 celebrations in London 2015. All photos: JOHNNY FENN PHOTOGRAPHY was the night after […]
December 22, 2020
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Nepal’s history through art
HA Oldfield’s 1850 painting of the British Residency in Kathmandu (now the Indian Embassy) showing the empty, barren landscape of […]
December 6, 2020
November 2020
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A postcard from Jan Morris 1926-2020
Writer, reporter, historian, traveller, and trans pioneer, Jan Morris died on 20 Nov 2020. he last surviving foreign member of […]
November 22, 2020
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Once in a Halloween Blue Moon in Kathmandu
A rare Blue Moon rising over Kathmandu on 31 October. There will not be another one till 2039. Photo: Kunda […]
November 8, 2020
October 2020
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The Himalaya mourn a saintly leader
Tengboche Rinpoche arrives at Namche monastery for the Dumji festival during the summer of 2018. Photo: SUJOY DAS n the […]
October 17, 2020
Opinion
The elephant dilemma
Blending into their natural habitat, elephants are a perfect vehicle on which to explore tiger country’s towering grasslands in safety […]
October 4, 2020
September 2020
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Father Moran and Nepal’s Jesuits
Fr Marshall D Moran (1906-1992) in Nepal with his ham radio and 9N1MM call sign. e stood uneasily on the […]
September 20, 2020
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Nepal’s tourism now has to re-start from zero
Boris Lissanevitch and Inger at Kathmandu airport in 1955 when the first tour groups started arriving in Nepal. ot since […]
September 6, 2020
August 2020
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Biplanes and balloons over Mt Everest
The Houston-Westland flown by Douglas Douglas-Hamilton and Stewart Blacker approaching Mt Everest. Photo by S R Bonnett taken on 19 […]
August 23, 2020