Where do you live?

Niranjan Kunwar | October 12, 2014

I lived, for a while, in a world without words. There was only music and movement. And masks. Frogs jumped. One of them had a mohawk. He swaggered across the stage, swept his arms around....

राजनीतिको भगीरथ कर्म

उज्ज्वल प्रसार्इं | September 29, 2014

पत्रकार प्रशान्त झाको किताब ब्याटल्स अफ द न्यु रिपब्लिकले संघर्षको पृष्ठभूमि उधिन्छ, भएका उपलब्धि कति हुन्, त्यसको नाप जोख गर्छ। र, तिनलाई संस्थागत गर्ने क्रममा भएका व्यवहारिक राजनीतिक रस्साकस्सिका विचित्र किस्सा सुनाउँछ ।

Burden of proof

Rakesh Chaudhary | September 18, 2014

Sexual violence against women has reached epidemic levels in the Tarai. According to Nepal Police records, the number of rape cases reported at police stations has increased in the last three years from 481 in...

रोमान्चक शहरको मौलिक इतिहास

नयन-पी-सिन्धुलीय | September 6, 2014

काठमाडौं, लेखक - थोमस बेल, रेन्डम हाउस इन्डिया, ४६३ पृष्ठ विश्वविद्यालयमा इतिहासको अध्ययन सकी बेलायतबाट नेपाल बरालिएका थोमस बेलले लगभग एक दशकमा काठमाडौं र नेपाललाई अत्यन्त नजिकबाट देखे-भोगेका छन् । यसैहप्ता विमोचित पहिलो आलेखात्मक पुस्तक 'काठमाडौँ' मार्फत बेलले...

Sweet home Whackmando

Paritosh | September 2, 2014

Oh, no it’s Him! Behold the Benevolent Butcher: Here to collect his dues. He beckons me kindly to open the door. He tries to seduce me with a Holy Verse from the Holy Book. But...

Whose art is it anyway?

Rabi Thapa | August 26, 2014

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...

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Review: Downtown Restaurant, Pulchowk, Lalitpur

gobArganesh | August 24, 2014

The sun rose slightly earlier than the day before. The sun rose like rose concrete. The sun came up like a smoke alarm over Kathmandu which was already half-awake and blowing steam. It was a...

On being visible

Niranjan Kunwar | August 11, 2014

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...

What Nepal should really learn from Tibet’s development

Tara Green | August 7, 2014

The article by Chet Nath Acharya, published in Nepali in the Annapurna Post on July 6, 2014, and translated into English and made available on www.lalitmag.com, depicted Tibet as a paradise of progress and comfort, and suggested Nepal has...