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The geography of ambition on Mt Everest

Nepal, July 28 -- am writing this in Nepal, but I carry the topography of Bangladesh in my bones -- a land of floodplains and rivers, an unrelenting flatness where the horizon is a soft line between w... Read More


Nepal revives the purity and popularity of paubha

Nepal, July 27 -- More than 1,300 years ago a unique devotional art form evolved in Kathmandu Valley's unique Hindu-Buddhist civilisation. Called paubha, the scrolls were painted with natural pigment... Read More


How to cool down Kathmandu's heat bubble

Nepal, July 26 -- Like other South Asian cities, Kathmandu also grapples with the trilemma of rapid urbanisation, ever expanding and often unplanned grey infrastructure, and an increasingly challengin... Read More


The early years of flying in Nepal

Nepal, July 25 -- 3April, 1933 The first recorded flight in Nepal's airspace was by British pilots Lord Clydesdale (Douglas Douglas-Hamilton) Flight Lt. D.F. M'Intyre, on two Westland PV3s with Brist... Read More


Nepal's Brocracy

Nepal, July 24 -- Prime Minister Balendra Shah's government that was elected four months ago, riding a wave on the Discord platform is now itself ridden with discord. The Prime Minister, his small in... Read More


Blending faith and fashion in Nepal

Nepal, July 23 -- reen is the colour of the Nepali month of Shrawan. It is the middle of the monsoon, and the countryside is emerald green, the air is clean and there are sacred festivals every other ... Read More


Social media age bans won't make children safer

Nepal, July 22 -- When I joined Facebook in 2009, I believed in the mission that founder Mark Zuckerberg espoused: to connect and empower people around the world. We all know how that turned out. Met... Read More


Turning Nepal's body painting tradition into art

India, July 21 -- As a young girl growing up in a Newa household, Shreya Bajracharya was always drawn to the vibrant red colour painted on the toes and fingers of family members during important life ... Read More


Lands of milk and honey.

Nepal, July 20 -- his is the 98th episodes of Diaspora Diaries, a Nepali Times series in collaboration with Migration Lab providing a platform to share experiences of living, working and studying abro... Read More


Lands of milk and honey

Nepal, July 19 -- I was born in Gorkha to a farming family. My brother and I went to a nearby school where I was an average student. On weekends, neighbours took turns to work on each others' land in... Read More