As Nepal tries to revive its tourism industry, it would be a good idea to hand out Visitor Feedback Questionnaires for dear and departing…
Their initial perception might shock you but most foreigners grow to love and learn about Nepal and its people
Illustration: BHANU ACHARYA/NEPALI TIMESDuring the 2017 elections, Baburam Bhattarai’s Naya Shakti Party propped up the Nepali Congress (NC)…
Archaic patriarchal beliefs will persist for years but you can't let negative emotions consume you
All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAIn the centre of the room of the ground floor at Siddhartha Art Gallery, tattooed ceramic female figures stretch…
Pragati Rai. All Photos: MONIKA DEUPALAAs a child, Pragati Rai was called fattyauri, someone who would not stop talking. “I did not like that…
Qatar is one of the most popular overseas destination for Nepali workers, and because of that the Gulf state’s strict measures to stop the…
The World Economic Forum’s annual list of Young Global Leaders (YGL) has featured very few Nepalis so far. The 2015 batch included Nepali…
The COVID-19 epidemic has hit countries where millions of Nepalis work
I'm so old that I remember a time — back in the hoary 1990s — when you couldn’t expect flair, or at times even fluency, from Nepal’s…
Nepali restaurateur returns home to build a culinary bridge
Photo: GOPEN RAISingle and no one in your offline life for a V-Day date? There are plenty of ways to hook up in cyberspace for 14 February. We…
If you like Nepali folk songs, you must have come across a hirsute man on Youtube, singing old, familiar songs with an unusual accent and lilt.…
Given the vibrant art and literature scene in Nepal, we tend to forget that there is a whole Nepali-speaking world out there. At least 5 million…
A Nepali photojournalist formerly with the Maoists is now documenting the protests on-going in Hong Kong, and says the demonstrations seem to…
The story behind the entrepreneur behind the Khaalisisi initiative
Photos: Arun S RanaFew Nepalis know where Kamchatka is, and the ones who do probably heard about it from the board game ‘Risk’, where it is…
There is nothing like it yet in north Kathmandu, or the whole Kathmandu Valley for that matter — the Chhaya Centre is a mega-complex housing a…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAWhen Usha Sherchan talks about Pokhara, where she grew up, she gets a faraway look in her eyes. Everywhere around us were…
On the morning of 31 October 1954, 29-year-old William J Burke stepped on a red-gold carpet of fallen maple leaves outside his home as he made…
All Photos: MANOSE NEWA/ FACEBOOKWhen Manose Newa brings his bansuri flute to his lips, his entire demeanour changes. His shoulders relax and…
An excerpt from 'Breathe In, Breathe Out" by Kanchan Burathoki. All Photos: VIRANGANA COMICSKanchan Burathoki felt massive pain and grief when…
Nepal is not just exporting manpower to Qatar now, but also veggies
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALABorn in 1971 into an aristocratic Rana-Shah family in Kathmandu, Nibha Shah spent most of her early childhood in Kailali,…
