The sattal at Purohitghat by the Bagmati river is located on a long stretch of stepped embankment that did not start to be architecturally articulated before the 1790s. The sattal at Purohitghat was one of the smaller endowments, but probably the most fascinating one. The baluster columns and the cusped arches of the arcade follow […]

Drawing the limits means excluding something which is seen as outside the valid order. This space in-between, this empty space that opens up between inside and outside, between the included and the excluded, tells as much about a society itself as it tells about its values. A society establishes and preserves its values through the […]

Blink and you’ll miss it – KU Art+Design’s week-long exhibition at the Nepal Art Council in Babar Mahal is the creative explosion of a generation of graduates from Kathmandu University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts, and unless you’re one of those hapless fools tasked to “draft” our constitution down the road, I’d recommend getting there by […]

The Kali Gandaki lives up to its name. It is dark and seething. Above the western banks of the river, following a serpentine road, the town of Baglung rests upon a gentle hill. From the town, one can gaze across the river and witness a ferocious history in the sheer cliffs that the river has […]

The Book Bus rolled into Gaighat, Udayapur, and parked itself inside Triyuga Multiple Campus a day before Saraswati Puja. Saraswati is the goddess of wisdom in the Hindu pantheon. She is the one who grants degrees, and she is part of an integral chain that leads towards gainful employment. She is somewhere between Ganesh, who […]

A community school must run classes for a minimum of 220 days in a year, and it must stay open from ten in the morning to four in the afternoon. These rules do not apply to the school across the Mechi. The school

Once upon a time we discovered that a text was not gospel. That once it issued from the imagination of the author, it was free to take whatever form it wanted in the mind of the engaged reader. This realization, millennia after it became evident that the word of god was not really so, would […]

Fashion scares me. Not the kind of scared when you watch a scary movie. Not even like walking in a dark forest, but the scary that comes with not being in your element at all. The kind of scary when everything around you feels real but you are not. So the first thing I did when […]

Please be seated by 4, noted the ticket, but by the time the MC began to gush about how lucky we were that Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia was in the house, it was close to 5. And she wasn’t even in the programme. ‘When was the last time you saw classical music in Nepal,’ she […]