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Concrete planning
Nepali Times editorial #740 9-15 January 2015On 25 April 2015 at exactly 11:56, the ground beneath Kathmandu Valley started shaking. Houses…
Nepali artist’s butterfly effect
All photos: Milan RaiMilan Rai has come a long way since his project to stick white butterflies to trees in Nepal went viral worldwide. His art…
Monsoon Culture
The Newar ritual of feeding frogs is immediately followed by the festive procession of the cow, which was actually the expected day for the…
Niels Gutschow leaves home
Niels Gutschow next to the 17th century wooden door added to the guest house. All photos: MONIKA DEUPALA"Welcome to my playground,” calls Niels…
Remembering Robert Powell
Kuthu Math. All photos: ROBERT POWELL/TARAGAON MUSEUMRobert Powell’s drawing of the courtyard façade of Kuthu Math in Bhaktapur is a prime…
Jabs for jobs
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIOne month into the prohibitory orders, Kathmandu Valley has gone into stricter lockdown for another week, even as the…
This is war
Nepal’s first wave of the coronavirus last year now looks like a ripple, and what the country is now witnessing is the main eruption. A lot of…
This is war
Nepal’s first wave of the coronavirus last year now looks like a ripple, and what the country is now witnessing is the main eruption. A lot of…
Another Kathmandu exodus
All photos: AMIT MACHAMASIIn a scene reminiscent of last year, tens of thousands of people thronged Kathmandu's main bus terminals to get out of…
The homecoming of Nepal’s gods
The Laxmi-Narayan upon arrival in Nepal Embassy in Washington DC on 6 March. Photo: AMITABHA JOSHINearly 40 years after it was stolen from…
Be water
Two flash stories about how water, with its quality to cleanse is a draw
Be prepared
Earthquake Safety Day 2004 coverage. Photo: NEPALI TIMES #178 Nepal’s National Earthquake Safety Day commemorates 15 January 1934, the day when…
Welcome to suburbia
Meet Jyoti, the leader of a group of children who live on the outskirts of Kathmandu
Hotspots within Kathmandu’s Covid-19 hotbed
Maps: CCMCKathmandu is a hotbed for Covid-19 with 60% of all active cases in the country. But there are hotspots within this hotbed.A map…
Nepal’s leaders are in isolation
Until vaccines and therapies are available, we in Nepal like everywhere else in the world, have to learn to live with this scourge. Extending…
Police stop Patan chariot pulling citing Covid-19
All photos: BIKRAM RAIThe Machindranath festival is usually supposed to be in May to ensure that the rain gods bring a timely monsoon. The…
Solution to Kathmandu’s water crisis
Photo: SONIA AWALEHaphazard urbanisation, a continually growing population and long delays in the finalisation of the Melamchi Project have…
Take to pottery during the pandemic
Ceramics classes allow Bhaktapur potters to keep family heritage alive, while giving people a chance to destress
Kathmandu Lockdown 2.0
All photos: BIKRAM RAIThe first day of the second lockdown in Kathmandu Valley saw major intersections mostly deserted with main roads heavily…
The barber and the virus in Kathmandu
Nepal Army personnel perform final rites of a daily wage worker who passed away this week. Photo: RSSIt was 11am on Monday morning in a quiet…
COVID-19 mutes Krishna festival in Kathmandu
Photos: Bikram Rai and Monika Deupala
The Day of the Holy Serpents
Chet Kumari Chitrakar, 65, uses wooden blocks to imprint the outline on paper, then infills them with colour. All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAThe…
Nepal by night
We have undersold Kathmandu Valley’s nightlife, but not in the way you might like to think
Street vs Guthi Bill
Tens of thousands of people from Kathmandu Valley gathered in maitighar Mandala to protest the Guthi Bill.Tens of thousands of people from…