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The selection process for the boy gods is the same as for the Kumari. They have to be from a Shakya clan belonging to one of the 18 bahals in Kathmandu. The purity of their lineage has to be ensured ...

Prithvi Narayan Shah built the imposing fortress palace in Nuwakot in 1762 as he swept eastwards towards Kathmandu Valley as part of the conquests that led to the formation of the nation state of ...

Although rocky, Nepal’s transition from monarchy to republic was civilised compared to other countries which have executed deposed monarchs, ransacked the palace or driven them into exile. The state ...

Austrian architect and filmmaker Götz Hagmüller sits on his porch not far from the collapsed temple at Bhaktapur’s Dattatreya Square and picks up a thick portfolio map full of articles and stories ...

Despite added costs due to the earthquake and blockade, and the likelihood that it will take some years to break even, the developers are hopeful for LABIM’s future. “We don’t necessarily need to be ...

When South Asia’s first community radio went on air in Kathmandu in May 1997, Nepalis were electing representatives to VDCs, DDCs and municipalities in the midst of a war that had just started.

The remote poverty-stricken mountains of mid-western Nepal should be draped in purple fields of buckwheat or ripening yellow wheat. But these days terrace farms here are covered in white poppy flowers ...

The new translation of History of the Kings of Nepal- A Buddhist Chronicle aims to correct the mistakes and fill the gaps found in the earlier translation. For a long time, the prevailing notion among ...

So when Sangeeta Thapa, Board Member of the Patan Museum Development Committee, proposed a book on the history of the Chitrakars, Madan jumped at the opportunity. Nepali Painting Through the Ages was ...

There was a time when Nepal was known as the last Shangri-la. Today that title rightfully belongs to Bhutan. Even as the Himalayan kingdom cautiously opened itself to the outside world in the mid-70s, ...

Exactly a hundred years ago in May 1915 the allied forces, stiffened by reinforcements from the Indian 29th Brigade, which included three Nepali Gurkha battalions, clustered on the beaches of ...