Wherein a tone-deaf MC and a jetlagged headliner fail to derail a sonic ride at the City Museum Kathmandu After a season’s worth of delays, the City Museum Kathmandu opened discreetly on May 5 with...

"Pālai pālo moj garnu parchha!" After spending nearly two hours trying to parse the mysteries of human suffering as portrayed in director Dipak Shrestha's Wrong Way, the illumination came at the very climax: two men roll...

Things seemed to be going well. Well in the way that the days passed with ease and adequate happiness. I felt that this was one of those times I would look back upon with a...

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...

The Vanishing Act, by Prawin Adhikari (226 pages, Rupa Publications 2014) The early stories in Prawin Adhikari’s debut collection examine the mixture of guilt and innocence with which a young boy growing up in the...

Over the years, Nepal has hosted any number of events related to climate change, hardly surprising considering we live in the shadow of the Himalaya, the ‘third pole’. Receding glaciers and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods...

International election observers came, saw and pronounced once again on the Constituent Assembly elections, held for the second time on 19 November last year. President Jimmy Carter, now 89 years young, was here again, as...

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...