Tag: #Britain
Articles tagged with #Britain
Nepal, Britain mark centenary of 1923 treaty
Nepal’s foreign minister and the British ambassador at the exact spot where document was signed 100 years ago
Secularism and sectarianism
Nepal is not yet secular. We still have a long way to go.
From Nalapani to Kalapani
The forest around Khalanga fort in Nalapani, the site of the first major battle that pitted the Gorkhali troops against the East India Company…
Where Nepal’s banner once waved
The Malaun Fort stands forlorn in what is now India’s Himachal Pradesh. Photos: ALISHA SIJAPATINepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a…
Back to the future in Nepal
For Nepalis who migrated to New South Wales, it must feel like going from the frying pan into the fire
Cold comfort
In her recent article in this paper ‘Gurkha Grandparents’ (#944) Sikuma Rai movingly describes the plight of many elderly Nepalis now living in…
The time has come for a Gurkha Peace Corps
It is now more than 200 years that men from Nepal have joined the British Army to fight, if needs be, in support of Britain’s overseas…
A military-migrant economy
Families enable ex-Gurkhas to continue global private security workA security worker from Pokhara before boarding his flight to Afghanistan. He…