Tag: #history
Articles tagged with #history
YALA
New photobook is a must-have guide for visitors to Lalitpur, and also for residents
Nepal’s incomplete revolutions
Political and democratic movements of the past decades have all fallen short of citizen’s expectations
2007
After a jam packed 2006, Nepal’s nascent democracy cautiously inched forward under an interim constitution and eight parties going into…
The cost of preserving Nepal’s past
An archaeological site displaces communities in the district in which the Buddha was born
2000
Nepali Times was born at the dawn of the new millennium. It started publishing online in May 2000 before the #1 print edition in the week of…
25 years of journalism
A portal into Patan’s past and present
For nearly 30 years, Patan Museum has connected Nepalis and visitors to Kathmandu Valley civilisation
The Sita-Ram corridor
Ayodhya in India and Janakpur in Nepal have a connection that predates the national boundary
Retelling Gurkha history
Paying artistic homage to the lives of wives Nepalis left behind when they went to war
Memories of an archivist
Pioneer of microfilming in Nepal has made it his life’s mission to preserve ancient documents
Wine, women and song
Bishnu Shumsher Rana, the Nepali prince who was a cultural rebel in search of personal freedom
History on canvas
Depicting through paintings the unification of Kathmandu Valley before Prithvi Narayan Shah
An archive of Nepali heritage
The Nepal Architecture Archive sets an example on how to preserve the country's cultural history
Singha Darbar, not Singapore
The obsession of our leaders with Singapore is unmatched. Every prime minister we have had in the 30 years (some of them serial prime ministers) has promised to turn Nepal into a Singapore one too many times. Why not just build a Nepal that is just and fair for everyone?
Painted walls and pieces of history
King Bhupatindra Malla as Vishwaroop with his queen Vishwa Laxmi in his arms in Bhaktapur’s 55-Window Darbar. On either side the vast mural…
Buried in history
The first view inside the British Cemetery at Kathmandu as it looks today - the caretakers Prem and Durga Devi might ask you to sign their…
Saving Nepal’s archives from oblivion
In June 2019, a team from the National Archives reached Taplejung in eastern Nepal to find decaying handwritten parchments, centuries-old…
Kathmandu’s passage of time in photos
The mustard fields of Chobhar have been turned into an amusement park. All photos: SCOTT FAIIANepal is known the world over for its majestic…
The statelessness pandemic
Legal theorists once consigned the idea of ‘statelessness’ to the realm of fiction, because they considered it to be impossible within the state…
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…
Lain Singh Bangdel’s 'Sigh'
Why is there is a look of quiet contentment in Bangdel’s visage in the artist’s self-portrait?
Where Siddhartha Gautam walked
Kapilvastu-Tilaurakot is 2,700 years old, and is the most well preserved archaeological site in South Asia
History on replay
The brutal murder of school principal Rajendra Shrestha in the remote village of Miklajung of Morang district this week is a cruel reminder of…
History on replay
The brutal murder of school principal Rajendra Shrestha in the remote village of Miklajung of Morang district this week is a cruel reminder of…