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Shyam’s Shangrila
Shyam’s Shangrila

Shyam Bahadur Panday, founder of Hotel Shangrila had a pioneering vision for hotels that reflected the spirit of Nepal.

Mar 4, 2025

Sacred Rudraksha of Nepal
Sacred Rudraksha of Nepal

Sacred Rudrakshas that are grown in the hills of Nepal are truly special in every religious, spiritual and a commercial way.

Aug 12, 2024

Ambica Shrestha (1933-2024)
Ambica Shrestha (1933-2024)

Tourism leader, businesswoman, philanthropist, and a tireless fighter for women’s rights, equitable entrepreneurship, and cultural conservation, Ambica Shrestha showed us how to do it by creating Dwarika’s, one of the most celebrated heritage hotels in Asia.

Aug 4, 2024

Bhadai Purnima
Bhadai Purnima

Every Bhadra Purnima, locals of Juphal celebrate the arrival of their anscestral god, Manma Deuta for 15 days.

Jun 13, 2024

Nepal govt bypasses parliament to allow commercial projects in protected areas
Nepal govt bypasses parliament to allow commercial projects in protected areas

Nepal’s government has bypassed the country’s parliament to issue a controversial ordinance facilitating foreign investment in different sectors of the country.

May 9, 2024

11th Nepal Owl Festival in Parbat
11th Nepal Owl Festival in Parbat

11th “Nepal Latokosero and Huchil Festival” took place intending to shine a light on the conservation of owls and Eurasian Eagle owls. Lopre

Feb 8, 2024

Shree Madhav Narayan Mela
Shree Madhav Narayan Mela

Shree Madhav Narayan Mela is celebrated at a grand scale by the Bhaktapur Devout. They offer full body prostrations and make Kalasha Yatra.

Jan 26, 2024

Nests of hope: Nepal’s vulture colonies hold on amid new threats
Nests of hope: Nepal’s vulture colonies hold on amid new threats

Critically endangered white-rumped vultures (Gyps bengalensis) in Nepal have maintained stable numbers for more than a decade.

Jan 21, 2024

Godavari School Revisited
Godavari School Revisited

The last Rana ruler Maharajah Mohun Shumsher was wise to bestow Godavari's Rana-era buildings and its expansive grounds to the Jesuits to run a school. 

Dec 31, 2023

An International Christmas in Kathmandu
An International Christmas in Kathmandu

Wherever a family calls home, if they celebrate Christmas in Nepal, it’s bound to take on a global flavor. And why not?

Dec 24, 2023

Rock n' Roll Yetis
Rock n' Roll Yetis

Hendrix, Jagger, Marley, and The Beatles are all said to have visited Nepal. Legend puts two of them at one inn in Jomsom.

Nov 5, 2023

Climbing the Fish's Tail
Climbing the Fish's Tail

Climbing the Fish's Tail is a Wilfrid Noyce's chronicles of his unsuccessful ascent of Machhapuchhare Himal.

Oct 15, 2023

Thirteen Days of Mourning & Release
Thirteen Days of Mourning & Release

People perform a final act of devotion to a loved one whose story seems finished, and then discover it’s not the end of the story after all.

Oct 5, 2023

Nepal won’t set fresh tiger number goal, to focus on coexistence, connectivity
Nepal won’t set fresh tiger number goal, to focus on coexistence, connectivity

Nepal won’t set fresh tiger number goal because the country has already achieved a remarkable increase in its tiger population in 2022.

Sep 28, 2023

Has the Buddha’s legacy in Nepal helped save sarus cranes?
Has the Buddha’s legacy in Nepal helped save sarus cranes?

Nepali conservationists say they believe there’s a possible link between the Buddha’s legacy and the conservation of sarus cranes in Lumbini

Aug 27, 2023

Remembering The Mountain of People and Supplies Who Enabled the 1953 Everest Summit
Remembering The Mountain of People and Supplies Who Enabled the 1953 Everest Summit

On this 70th anniversary, in 2023, of the first successful ascent of Everest, let’s remember the teamwork that enabled the success of May 29.

Aug 24, 2023

Gyani Maiya Sen, The Last of Kusunda
Gyani Maiya Sen, The Last of Kusunda

Gyani Maiya, the last of Kusunda, was ready to raise a generation of Kusundas who reverted back to their long forgotten mother tongue.

Jul 30, 2023

Chepang and Their Chiuri
Chepang and Their Chiuri

Chepang, the Indigenous People living in Western Nepal take up the challenge to revive cultural keystone tree, the Chiuri Tree.

Jul 23, 2023

Endangered Environmentalists of Nepal
Endangered Environmentalists of Nepal

Environmental human rights defenders in Nepal continue to fear for their safety and lives amid a lack of protection from the government.

Jul 9, 2023

Uday Raj Aaley's Quest to Preserve the Kusunda Language
Uday Raj Aaley's Quest to Preserve the Kusunda Language

A researcher, translator and a native speaker of Magar language Uday Raj Aaley talks about what does it take to revitalize a dying Kusunda.

Jul 6, 2023

Buried in History
Buried in History

New book on the British cemetery reminds us of expatriates who lived and died in Nepal over the past two centuries

Jun 29, 2023

The Journey of Volleyball in Nepal
The Journey of Volleyball in Nepal

The Journey of Volleyball in Nepal, a Quick photo story from Sunil Ullak's collection, from Introduction to Government Recognition.

Jun 25, 2023

Everest 70 years on
Everest 70 years on

70 years ago at 11.30 AM on 29 May 1953, Hillary and Tenzing made history as the first mountaineers to stand on the summit of Mt. Everest.

Jun 15, 2023

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