Sagar SJB Rana’s sequel to Singha Durbar is an insider look at post Rana-era Nepal
The first popularly elected government led by B P Koirala enacted the Birta Abolition Act in 1959, that required zamindars formerly granted land…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThis short book, Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal, by Jeevan Sharma, a senior lecturer on South…
King Mahendra and Queen Ratna posing atop a rhino they shot on a hunting trip in AfricaThe Anchorage Daily News in its 18 October edition has…
The 400-year-old necklace once worn by the Taleju Bhawani goddess in Kathmandu that is now in a museum in the United States. Photo: ART…
Silgadi, Doti in the 1960s. Photo: ROUNDS IMAGING SERVICESixty years ago, I arrived at Kolmuda of Kailali district as part of a 14-member team…
Niranjan Koirala's demeanour was more professorial than political.It was a glowing autumn afternoon in Bhaktapur with the sun warming the…
Charge d' Affaires L. Douglas welcomes BP Koirala to the US Embassy inaguration in 1959.On 15 December 1960 (पुस १) exactly 60 years ago, King…
It was a hazy winter afternoon when without warning at exactly 1PM, soldiers appeared on the streets of Kathmandu. Singha Darbar was cordoned…
The passing of Tulsi Giri, the doctor-turned-politician-turned-follower of the Jehovah’s Witness sect, who died on 18 December aged 93, marked…
… to track down the Indian-born son of American missionaries who first built Tiger Tops in Chitwan
