Tag: #King Mahendra
Articles tagged with #King Mahendra
Kingdom lost, republic gained
Sagar SJB Rana’s sequel to Singha Durbar is an insider look at post Rana-era Nepal
Ground reality of landlessness in Nepal
The first popularly elected government led by B P Koirala enacted the Birta Abolition Act in 1959, that required zamindars formerly granted land…
Nepal’s elusive ‘Great Transformation’
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThis short book, Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal, by Jeevan Sharma, a senior lecturer on South…
King Mahendra didn’t pay hunting bill in US
King Mahendra and Queen Ratna posing atop a rhino they shot on a hunting trip in AfricaThe Anchorage Daily News in its 18 October edition has…
How Nepali antiquities got to Chicago museum
The 400-year-old necklace once worn by the Taleju Bhawani goddess in Kathmandu that is now in a museum in the United States. Photo: ART…
How Nepali antiquities got to Chicago museum
The 400-year-old necklace once worn by the Taleju Bhawani goddess in Kathmandu that is now in a museum in the United States. Photo: ART…
Remembering the 1961 census
Silgadi, Doti in the 1960s. Photo: ROUNDS IMAGING SERVICESixty years ago, I arrived at Kolmuda of Kailali district as part of a 14-member team…
Niranjan Koirala, 73
Niranjan Koirala's demeanour was more professorial than political.It was a glowing autumn afternoon in Bhaktapur with the sun warming the…
America, Nepal and the Royal Coup
Charge d' Affaires L. Douglas welcomes BP Koirala to the US Embassy inaguration in 1959.On 15 December 1960 (पुस १) exactly 60 years ago, King…
America, Nepal and the Royal Coup
Charge d' Affaires L. Douglas welcomes BP Koirala to the US Embassy inaguration in 1959.On 15 December 1960 (पुस १) exactly 60 years ago, King…
‘Putsch Ek’
It was a hazy winter afternoon when without warning at exactly 1PM, soldiers appeared on the streets of Kathmandu. Singha Darbar was cordoned…
‘Putsch Ek’
It was a hazy winter afternoon when without warning at exactly 1PM, soldiers appeared on the streets of Kathmandu. Singha Darbar was cordoned…
TULSI GIRI, 93
The passing of Tulsi Giri, the doctor-turned-politician-turned-follower of the Jehovah’s Witness sect, who died on 18 December aged 93, marked…
Pilgrimage to Copenhagen
… to track down the Indian-born son of American missionaries who first built Tiger Tops in Chitwan