Photo: SOFILA VAIDYAFelicity Volk is Australia’s ambassador to Nepal, but many may not know that she is also a novelist. Long before joining…
Here is a directory of 50 women from different walks in life in Nepal, a collaborative work by Bec Ordish, Sarita Gurung and Nimdiki…
It is a privilege to be able to read, understand and appreciate the depth of women’s writing and the expanse of their ideas. But it was several…
Amitabha Bagchi reeives the DSC prize 2019 from Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Nepal Literature Festival in Pokhara in…
Jamil Jan Kochai is the O Henry Prize-winning author of the novel 99 Nights in Logar, which was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian…
Ram Sharan Mahat, former foreign and finance minister of the Nepali Congress, has published an important book that serves as an explainer and…
The 9thDSC Prize for South Asian Literature will be holding its award ceremony this year during the IME Nepal Literature Festival closing…
Harish Trivedi, Jury Chair of the DSC Prize 2019, at the Shortlist Announcement event in LondonThe 2019 shortlist of books for the annual DSC…
Gurkha soldiers in the battle of Gallipoli. they were the first to arrive and the last to leave, and suffered at least 1,000 dead and 4,000…
T his time of year Mustang is a profusion of colour: lapis lazuli sky with dazzling clouds, purple fields of buckwheat, ripening golden barley…
In By the Way of the Border: Travels around the frontiers and beyuls of Nepal, Maximillian Mørch tells the story of not just Nepal’s mountains…
Photo: DAMIEN FRANCOISCamping on the glacier, the snow fell softly all night, making the tent sag. But by dawn the stars were out when we set…
SILO-ED THINKING: The Melamchi Project is given by authors as an example of non-nexus thinking. By planning it only as a drinking water project,…
When Shanti Chaudhary was born in Kathmandu on 28 December, 1955, she possibly was the first Tharu person to be born in the capital. Her father…
King Mahendra in Moscow on the way to Norway in 1958. Photo credit: MORGENPOSTEN When Krishna Shumshere Rana, then stationed at the Royal…
Photo: RAJENDRA LAMAAs new roads crisscross the mountains and valleys of the Himalaya, Nepal’s most famous attraction – trekking – is…
I encountered Anita Tuladhar in a black and white 1985 studio photo. She stands with writer Toya Gurung and singer Aruna Lama. She is wearing a…
Nepal's world renowned eye doctor Sanduk Ruit with his patient at Tilganga Institute. Photo: GOPEN RAIDespite a decade long conflict, the…
The book Another South Asia! with an assertive exclamation mark in its title requires one to pause, and step back to recall what is South Asia,…
