Tag: #Patan
Articles tagged with #Patan
YALA
New photobook is a must-have guide for visitors to Lalitpur, and also for residents
From the outside looking in
A mixed media exhibition are windows on a tangible, architectural archive of Patan
Divine chariot
Patan’s Rato Matsyendranath procession is an intergenerational and transboundary festival
Making of a god
Preserving the ancient practice of bronze sculpting in Nepal
How did a Nepali ritual altar end up in Berlin?
Photo: DEEPAK TOLANGEWhen Kathmandu-based filmmaker Deepak Tolange visited the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin seven years ago, he sought out the…
Home sweet home for older Nepalis
Picture of Astaman Maharjan in Ananda NiketanTen years ago, Patan’s Astaman Maharjan donated a plot of land in a prime location and Rs5 million…
Kathmandu’s temple restoration after 1934 quake
The 8.3M earthquake that struck at 2:28PM on 15 January 1934 was the last major quake to hit Kathmandu before the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Nearly…
Between the lines with Sujan Dangol
The artist shows us the loss of old Kathmandu Valley with his intense drawings of a densely-packed urbanscape.
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…
US returns another antiquity to Nepal
Nepal Embassy in Washington receives the 10th century Uma Maheswar statue from Denver Museum on Monday. The figure was stolen from Patan…
Fire and ice
Fresh snow blown off the tops of Kang Nachugo and Tsubugo in Rolwaling Himal is back-lit by the rising sun. Kathmandu photos by Kunda…
Patan school built back better
The 2015 earthquake damaged 7,923 schools and 49,681 classrooms in 14 districts in Central Nepal. Of these, 6,085 schools have been rebuilt and…
Our Kamal Pokhari
Kathmandu Valley's ponds need to be revived, not just restored
Walkabout with Anil: Hiti
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
Delayed Machindranath Festival resumes
Despite contradictory government directives about the Machindranath Chariot in Patan due to the COVID-19 crisis, the local community trust in…
Nepal closes land border with India, China
Sunday's cabinet meeting at the prime minister's resident in Baluwatar, the first since Prime Minister Oli had his second kidney transplant two…
Yomari Punhi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccGvvnK0tsQ&feature=youtu.beA popular Newari festival observed every year during the December full moon, Yomari…
Nepal by night
We have undersold Kathmandu Valley’s nightlife, but not in the way you might like to think
Selective outrage about heritage loss
PAST GLORY: Bhasmeswar Mahadev Temple before it was destroyed by the 1934 earthquake, with Uma Maheswar on the left and Patan Darbar behind it.…
Nepal must keep water on its land
Our ancestors knew how to store monsoon runoff for year-round use, we must learn from them
Divine intervention by ex-Kumaris
The combined power of eight former living goddesses brought down an April storm on a book launch
Good as old after two earthquakes
Patan’s historic temple is not just being rebuilt, but restored to its pre-1934 look