From Karakoram to Everest
There are many ways to celebrate a jubilee year and one of them is to go climb Everest. A group of Pakistani mountaineers are on the
It does not seem to shame nor needlessly bother Kathmandu's ruling classes that highland peasants by the hundreds of thousands leave the country every year to work the most wretched jobs in the plains of India.
A Season in Heaven:
True Tales from the Road to Kathmandu
by David Tomory
Harper Collins, London, 1996
pp 237, GBP 4.95 ISBN 1 85538 444 2
This entertaining
Everest multi-summiteer Ang Rita Sherpa would have been an international celebrity if he spoke English, had fair skin, and concentrated on selling himself rather than grazing his yaks.
Nepalis are justifiably proud of their multi-party democracy which they claim to have achieved after a long struggle against an unjust, apathetic and authoritarian regime. In the political lexicography of
Visitors coming to Nepal and expecting to feel the country´s "pulse" by reading the English papers and magazines will find themselves sadly out of touch. For, unlike
The national-level politicians and political parties have failed Nepal, oblivious as they are of cynicism and desperation that is developing countrywide.
The national-level politicians and political parties have failed Nepal,
Bird watching is trying to gain wing in Nepal, spurred by a unique manual prepared by an American father-and-son team.
Nepalis are not known to be great book readers to
Bangladesh Artists Visit Pakistan
SOON AFTER A contingent of retired Indian army officers and their wives returned after a goodwill visit of Pakistan, it was time for cultural visitors from
Cleaner Air in Kathmandu
WHAT IS MADE in India, is powered by Bangladeshi batteries, charged with Nepali electricity, and runs on us-made DC motors?
Answer: Kathmandu´s electric three-wheeler commuter
KATHMANDU — The world of refugeedom tends to be divided between political exiles and economic migrants, even though the dividing line between the two is often blurred. However, there is one
We spent the evenings before the People´s Movement in that hotel, killing time. It wasn´t much of a hotel, despite its name: Pashupati Hotel. Even the signboard that
