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Feedback questionnaire
As Nepal tries to revive its tourism industry, it would be a good idea to hand out Visitor Feedback Questionnaires for dear and departing…
Right at home with Nepalis
Their initial perception might shock you but most foreigners grow to love and learn about Nepal and its people
The business of politics
Illustration: BHANU ACHARYA/NEPALI TIMESDuring the 2017 elections, Baburam Bhattarai’s Naya Shakti Party propped up the Nepali Congress (NC)…
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Archaic patriarchal beliefs will persist for years but you can't let negative emotions consume you
The house of Kalapremi
All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAIn the centre of the room of the ground floor at Siddhartha Art Gallery, tattooed ceramic female figures stretch…
Pragati Rai: Her Own Writer
Pragati Rai. All Photos: MONIKA DEUPALAAs a child, Pragati Rai was called fattyauri, someone who would not stop talking. “I did not like that…
Nepalis quarantined in Qatar
Qatar is one of the most popular overseas destination for Nepali workers, and because of that the Gulf state’s strict measures to stop the…
Nepal’s new Davos man
The World Economic Forum’s annual list of Young Global Leaders (YGL) has featured very few Nepalis so far. The 2015 batch included Nepali…
Crossborder virus and Nepali migrant workers
The COVID-19 epidemic has hit countries where millions of Nepalis work
Onward
I'm so old that I remember a time — back in the hoary 1990s — when you couldn’t expect flair, or at times even fluency, from Nepal’s…
A taste of Spain in Sanepa
Nepali restaurateur returns home to build a culinary bridge
The new age of romance
Photo: GOPEN RAISingle and no one in your offline life for a V-Day date? There are plenty of ways to hook up in cyberspace for 14 February. We…
Arko, the Nepali minstrel from Bengal
If you like Nepali folk songs, you must have come across a hirsute man on Youtube, singing old, familiar songs with an unusual accent and lilt.…
Moving songs from the boys next door
Given the vibrant art and literature scene in Nepal, we tend to forget that there is a whole Nepali-speaking world out there. At least 5 million…
Hong Kong’s Jana Andolan
A Nepali photojournalist formerly with the Maoists is now documenting the protests on-going in Hong Kong, and says the demonstrations seem to…
Nepali entrepreneur turns trash into cash
The story behind the entrepreneur behind the Khaalisisi initiative
Nepalis go salmon fishing in Kamchatka
Photos: Arun S RanaFew Nepalis know where Kamchatka is, and the ones who do probably heard about it from the board game ‘Risk’, where it is…
A Thamel within Thamel
There is nothing like it yet in north Kathmandu, or the whole Kathmandu Valley for that matter — the Chhaya Centre is a mega-complex housing a…
Usha Sherchan: Humming a tune of her own
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAWhen Usha Sherchan talks about Pokhara, where she grew up, she gets a faraway look in her eyes. Everywhere around us were…
Canadian's missionary zeal for Nepali
On the morning of 31 October 1954, 29-year-old William J Burke stepped on a red-gold carpet of fallen maple leaves outside his home as he made…
The new age of Grammy nominee Manose
All Photos: MANOSE NEWA/ FACEBOOKWhen Manose Newa brings his bansuri flute to his lips, his entire demeanour changes. His shoulders relax and…
Love thy self
An excerpt from 'Breathe In, Breathe Out" by Kanchan Burathoki. All Photos: VIRANGANA COMICSKanchan Burathoki felt massive pain and grief when…
Greens from Nepal in Qatar’s desert
Nepal is not just exporting manpower to Qatar now, but also veggies
Nibha Shah: Nepali poetry’s mansara
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALABorn in 1971 into an aristocratic Rana-Shah family in Kathmandu, Nibha Shah spent most of her early childhood in Kailali,…