New photobook is a must-have guide for visitors to Lalitpur, and also for residents
Political and democratic movements of the past decades have all fallen short of citizen’s expectations
After a jam packed 2006, Nepal’s nascent democracy cautiously inched forward under an interim constitution and eight parties going into…
An archaeological site displaces communities in the district in which the Buddha was born
Nepali Times was born at the dawn of the new millennium. It started publishing online in May 2000 before the #1 print edition in the week of…
For nearly 30 years, Patan Museum has connected Nepalis and visitors to Kathmandu Valley civilisation
Ayodhya in India and Janakpur in Nepal have a connection that predates the national boundary
Paying artistic homage to the lives of wives Nepalis left behind when they went to war
Pioneer of microfilming in Nepal has made it his life’s mission to preserve ancient documents
Bishnu Shumsher Rana, the Nepali prince who was a cultural rebel in search of personal freedom
Depicting through paintings the unification of Kathmandu Valley before Prithvi Narayan Shah
The Nepal Architecture Archive sets an example on how to preserve the country's cultural history
The obsession of our leaders with Singapore is unmatched. Every prime minister we have had in the 30 years (some of them serial prime ministers) has promised to turn Nepal into a Singapore one too many times. Why not just build a Nepal that is just and fair for everyone?
King Bhupatindra Malla as Vishwaroop with his queen Vishwa Laxmi in his arms in Bhaktapur’s 55-Window Darbar. On either side the vast mural…
The first view inside the British Cemetery at Kathmandu as it looks today - the caretakers Prem and Durga Devi might ask you to sign their…
In June 2019, a team from the National Archives reached Taplejung in eastern Nepal to find decaying handwritten parchments, centuries-old…
The mustard fields of Chobhar have been turned into an amusement park. All photos: SCOTT FAIIANepal is known the world over for its majestic…
Legal theorists once consigned the idea of ‘statelessness’ to the realm of fiction, because they considered it to be impossible within the state…
View of the Gorkhali fort at Subathu. Photos: ALISHA SIJAPATINepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a month retracing the Gorkha expansion…
Why is there is a look of quiet contentment in Bangdel’s visage in the artist’s self-portrait?
Kapilvastu-Tilaurakot is 2,700 years old, and is the most well preserved archaeological site in South Asia
The brutal murder of school principal Rajendra Shrestha in the remote village of Miklajung of Morang district this week is a cruel reminder of…
