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Read my story “The Prediction,” about an astrologer’s prediction about the last days of the Rana regime of Nepal. This story is to be published in the journal Himalaya in …
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Encountering a tiger in the wild is a privilege not to be taken lightly, and an experience that is never forgotten. Words cannot do justice to this most magnificent of …
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During the early months of Covid Nepal was closed to visitors. Not since the early 1950s have we had zero tourists arrive in Kathmandu Valley. The combination of hostile geography …
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The early foreign investors in Nepal may have been an eccentric but they did understand international tourism and didn’t sell Nepal short.
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The Houston-Westland, flown by Douglas Douglas-Hamilton and Stewart Blacker approached Mt Everest and Balloons landed just above Gokyo Lake.
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Known for their beauty, curative powers, and food value, orchids are likely the most traded flowers in the world — both legally and illegally. Collectors knowingly or unknowingly, pressure locals …
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From the mid-1960s, hordes of hippies in search of Shangri-La bussed or hitchhiked through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India before culminating in our Valley paradise, the end of the road. They came in tens of thousands pursuing enlightenment, preaching peace, finding themselves, escaping conformity, defying convention or fleeing the Draft, packed into gaudily-painted combis, busses and trucks resonating with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison.
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In the southern plains of Nepal, a person who is frightened of something is told ‘you’re a wet cat’. But in that region, there are cats that aren’t afraid of water. In fact, it lives near wetlands and mostly feeds on fish, earning its name as the fishing cat.
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Tarana Burke a 45-year-old African-American civil rights activist from New York began ‘me too’ in 2006 to help survivors of sexual violence, particularly Black women and girls, and other young …
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Nepal’s history is told through art pencils, brushes, and colors on canvases by HA Oldfield, Rajman Singh, M M Poon and Chandra Man Maskey, i.e rediscovering the Victorian-era Paintings of Kathmandu by Early British and Nepali Artists