The director of Kathmandu's Film South Asia festival of documentaries looks back at the history of documentary films, maps evolving trends in the genre, reflects on the emergence of a substantial body of viewers for serious non-fiction and ponders on the ways in which these films can be taken to a l
I have learned the words of bloodstained courts in order to break the rules.
I have learned and dismantled all the words to construct a singe one:
Home
-Mahmoud Darwish,
When the Joint Verification Team (JVT), set up by the governments of Bhutan and Nepal after seven years of dialogue, first set foot in the Lhotshampa refugee camps in January
The Bhutanese refugees of southeast Nepal after more than a decade of exile.
The collapse of the SAARC summit, and why no one particularly cares.
Nepal has been following the authoritarian lead of Pakistan since the 1960s. It is time to stop doing so.
The Great Kathmandu-Dhaka Volkswagen Beetle Spinal Injury Fundraising Drive
When the idea hit us, it did so in our bellies. A massive whump planted itself in the solar plexus, and
Nepal's Royal Chitwan National Park is home to wild tigers, domesticated elephants and an abundance of the Indian One Horned Rhinoceros. Occasionally, it needs to unload rhinos on
Traveling Film South Asia opens eyes by moving across borders
Last October in a crowded auditorium in Kathmandu, Shyam Benegal took the stage to announce the winners of the biannual