The Week
Food, family, and four decades
Food, family, and four decades
Biku Maya Bajracharya is 71 years old and one happy soul. From the year 1976 she has sold woh (Nepali pancakes) in a small corner tucked away in an alley behind the Nyatapola Temple in Bhaktapur. Amidst the splatter of Bhaktapur’s splendid colors, it sits unassuming and silent. People who have heard...
Jan 11, 2019
My City, Gen-Next
Leaving warmth
Leaving warmth
Birds chirped,
Intrigued by first ray from the east.
Awoke a man,
Intrigued by thought of his bread.
Left warmth those who questioned survival,
I laid there, as a breathing corpse,
Survival never a problem,
Bliss swept below sewage,
Jan 11, 2019
SOCIETY
Ward chairperson arrested for allegedly stealing idols
Ward chairperson arrested for allegedly stealing idols
DOLPA, Jan 11: The ward chairperson of Dolpo Buddha rural municipality has been arrested for allegedly stealing idols from Rahap Gumba of She Phoksundo rural municipality-4.
Jan 11, 2019
The Week
Armed with a camera
Armed with a camera
Sabrina Dongol, 25, quit her job as an IT professional and started working as a freelance photographer. Photography, she says, came spontaneously. It was almost like second nature. But what started out as a mere hobby soon turned into a full-fledged career. Today, she takes on commissioned photograp...
Jan 11, 2019
My City, Gen-Next
My feelings
My feelings
We became friends. Time went on and we became closer to each other. Let's enter to the main thing I am writing about: love. I was falling in love with her. Every time she gets closer to me, I eventually feel the feelings more than before. Feelings, is that what we used to call love. But love is not...
Jan 11, 2019
The Week
Attires from around the world
Attires from around the world
Even today there are thousands of tribes across the world that live among themselves away from the rest of us. They fish, farm, make small governments to govern their populations and still live the indigenous life. Living the life that predates them by centuries, they have also retained their tribal...
Jan 11, 2019
My City, Entertainment
Jackson estate slams as 'pathetic' abuse claims in new documentary
Jackson estate slams as 'pathetic' abuse claims in new docum...
Michael Jackson’s estate on Thursday condemned on Thursday an upcoming documentary about alleged child sexual abuse by the late singer as another “outrageous and pathetic attempt” to cash in on his fame.
Jan 11, 2019
The Week
Good Reads
Good Reads
Becoming, Prisoners of Geography and Oneness With All Life
Jan 11, 2019
The Week
World’s coolest jobs
World’s coolest jobs
There are thousands of memes about Monday being the worst day of the week (for us Nepalis, it’s Sunday), because the weekend is over and most of us have to go to work, back to our not-so-satisfying, boring jobs. But what if on Monday you were scheduled to watch a movie, eat at a restaurant, or maybe...
Jan 11, 2019
The Week
Overcoming obstacles
Overcoming obstacles
KATHMANDU, Jan 11: 16-year-old Sushmita Limbu aspires to be a professional thangka painter. She lives in Bungamati and is one of the 60 children residing at the Disabled Services Association Nepal (DSA). Sushmita was born without the ability to speak or hear and was raised by her father until five y...
Jan 11, 2019