Tag: #Gurkhas
Articles tagged with #Gurkhas
The King and I
Former Gurkha officer decorated by King Charles for 25 years of charity work in Nepal
The start of the Anglo-Gorkha war
View of the Gorkhali fort at Subathu. Photos: ALISHA SIJAPATINepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a month retracing the Gorkha expansion…
The end of history
Our text books and teachers are so boring, no one is enrolling to study Nepal’s diverse past
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…
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…