Nepal, Oct. 31 -- Worshippers gazing reverently at the face of a deity in a temple rarely wonder whose hands gave it shape. Unknown master artists of the Kathmandu Valley passed on their skills within... Read More
Nepal, Oct. 29 -- ight months ago in this space, I argued that Nepal's crisis is better explained by homegrown institutional decay than by 'foreign hands'. And here we go again: the India question is ... Read More
Nepal, Oct. 27 -- The exceptionally good weather in Pokhara during Dasain week seemed to lift spirits in Nepal's tourist town which saw tour groups cancel following news of the devastating floods on t... Read More
Nepal, Oct. 26 -- Nepal is a multi-disaster prone country, and climate breakdown will make these compounded hazards more and more frequent. But even through disasters that have struck over the past d... Read More
Nepal, Oct. 25 -- eritage expert Rajan Khatiwoda in a recent report in this paper, described how families along the Trisuli asked whether an effigy woven from sacred grass could be used in funeral rit... Read More
Nepal, Oct. 24 -- Nepal's negotiators hailed the $21.6 million grant from the UN's Loss & Damage Fund for the Trisuli Valley disaster on 26 August, but it was approved reluctantly, represents only 0.4... Read More
Nepal, Oct. 23 -- Four years ago, during a snow leopard expedition to Upper Dolpo a traditional medicine practitioner at the ancient Samling Monastery told me about the role this elusive Himalayan pre... Read More
Nepal, Oct. 22 -- azz was a strange, foreign musical genre in Nepal before Cadenza came along nearly 30 years ago. But this pioneering Nepali jazz-fusion band did not build its following overnight. N... Read More
Nepal, Oct. 21 -- Australian artist Robert Powell left a prodigious body of work across Asia that spanned Swat Valley to Angkor Wat, but it is the paintings he made while living in Nepal over 30 years... Read More
Nepal, Oct. 20 -- Writing # Gifts, Offerings and Sacrifices: Exploring Newar Rituals in Nepal Who would have thought that votive offerings, sacrifices and feasts could be the subject of a sociologic... Read More