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...
Daddy wears white
Anuja Ghimire | July 24, 2014Daddy Wears White After letting the receiver hang Precariously from the table You had gone up to the roof I had already seen the watery edges Before I heard the echoing question on the phone...
Should We Not Learn from Tibet?
Chet Nath Acharya | July 16, 2014Nearly a thousand kilometres of the Nepalese border to the north abuts China's Tibet Autonomous Region. There is direct air and land transportation between Tibet and Nepal, which have been trading with each other for...
Who will repay the loan?
Manika Jha | July 13, 2014Jugal Malāh from Mahottari District, Matihani – 1, had done nothing wrong. He had been making a living as a day labourer when misfortune struck his life like a thunderbolt. He was arrested and kept...
No sky from this hotel room
Prateebha Tuladhar | July 8, 2014Love is the huge suffering that grows and grows within you like cancer when the one you love isn’t within your reach. Sometimes it’s not even about physical reach, but just a deep longing that makes us miss people, even when they are close enough to touch.
Damodar Pudasaini ‘Kishor’ honoured with the 2013 Uttam Shanti Puraskar
Niranjan Kunwar | June 24, 2014“Qatar workers who have left with MRPs – stories of their pain and grief – are also included in a creative, poetic way,” said Professor Rajendra Subedi while introducing Damodar Pudasaini ‘Kishor’s Nametiyeka Chitraharu (Unerased Pictures), which...
BookBusBlog: Baglung
Pranab Man Singh | June 18, 2014The 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...
Review: Santosh Kulung’s Restaurant, Cheskam, Solukhumbu
gobArganesh | June 8, 2014I walked for three days through the impossibly steep mid-hills of Eastern Nepal to reach this tiny hole-in-the-wall in the upper reaches of the Hongku river. The predominantly Kulung Rai village of Cheskam was saturated...
The literal and the literary
Prawin Adhikari | May 26, 2014Eelum Dixit's directorial debut, Red Monsoon, explores abuse and refuses respite. It looks at the spatial character of relationships. It traces a line between rebellion and its genesis in abuse: literally between one pair of characters...







