Kathmandu’s gravity-defying chariot festival
The procession of Karunāmaya this week is full of hidden pragmatism and teachings of the Buddha
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One night in Bhadgaon
Go to Bhaktapur for the Bisket Jatra chariot festival and stay overnight
Water for the ages
Kathmandu’s ancient water spouts provide more reliable supply than the $700 million Melamchi project
An archive of Nepali heritage
The Nepal Architecture Archive sets an example on how to preserve the country's cultural history
Expressing culture and nature in eco-art
Twenty-one acrylic portals on the crossroads of physical and spiritual worlds await visitors along an unassuming corridor. In Siddhartha Art Gallery, contemporary...
The delta of kāma
In 1294 the crown princess of Banepa donated a shiva linga to the nearby principality of Panauti. A temple was built to enshrine...
Man of the Nepali renaissance
Satyamohan Joshi, who died on Sunday morning at age 103, was a renaissance man, a polymath and historian whose long research career...
Preserving Patan post-earthquake
Much of Kathmandu’s centuries-old architectural heritage was destroyed in 45 seconds on a Saturday afternoon in 2015. Many of the temples built by the Malla kings in...
Carving out a heritage
Seven years after the 2015 earthquake, temples in Kathmandu Darbar Square are slowly coming out of the scaffoldings. While the iconic Kasthamandap...
Painted walls and pieces of history
The noise and dust from busy traffic at the Mangal Bazar intersection filters in through the lattice window at a corner of...
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