April 2022
SUBURBAN TALES
Alone in the crowd
Nagaras in Hanuman Dhoka. Photos: PRATIBHA TULADHAR he drumming in your heart sometimes syncs with the beating of a drum. […]
April 3, 2022
March 2022
SUBURBAN TALES
The light of feet
Photo: PRATIBHA TULADHAR n nights when things got unbearable, Laxmi Maya always stepped out of the house in the quiet […]
March 6, 2022
February 2022
SUBURBAN TALES
Vignettes from war
Ila Sharma and Hishila Yami in conversation at Indian Embassy, January 2022. Photos: PRATIBHA TULADHAR ast month, a small group […]
February 5, 2022
January 2022
SUBURBAN TALES
A letter to a sister
ear Y, You must have heard by now— Aji is no more. They took her to hospital in the middle of the night after she […]
January 4, 2022
December 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
Of anger and love
Photo: PRATIBHA TULADHAR ara wanted to understand why she had been so angry all the time. But she could make […]
December 5, 2021
November 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
A walk in the memory
Photo: PRATIBHA TULADHAR hen the two first met, one was a two-month-old orphaned pup and the other was a twenty-eight-year-old […]
November 5, 2021
October 2021
Wine and women during Yenya
Women-only night at Indra Jatra festival where participants drink rice wine from Swet Bhairav’s mouth as a blessing. Photos: MONIKA […]
October 4, 2021
September 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
Toilet encounters
Photo: PRATIBHA TULADHAR r K was every girl’s heart-throb. Yes. Heart-throb. We used the word for guys who made our […]
September 5, 2021
August 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
Sita
Photos: PRATIBHA TULADHAR he towered over me like a lone poplar tree. She was four years older than I was […]
August 1, 2021
July 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
No direction
Photo: PRATIBHA TULADHAR ver the years, it has become harder and harder to write about Katuwal. I have thought of […]
July 4, 2021