Trying to make a movie about a belt and road initiative before the term was even invented If you want to be remembered, write it down. Marco Polo was not the only merchant who traded and travelled from the Venetian…
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Dad’s deception
How an international wedding ceremony was saved by translation The dark interior of the Om Restaurant on Freak Street was my favourite hangout when I first arrived in Nepal. Run by three groovy long-haired brothers, refugees from eastern Tibet, it was one…
Bhutan is on the move
The world’s first carbon-negative country absorbs more CO2 than it burns Our flight arrived 45 minutes early. “Only in Bhutan, never in Nepal,” grinned a retired army general shouldering his golf clubs and duty free at Kathmandu airport, heading for a weekend on…
The religion of rugby
The 20-nation 2019 Rugby World Cup will kick off in Japan next month, but many in Nepal will not know it Iwas hemmed in on all sides by a resonating wall of damp dark jackets, the wide bodies of my…
A working mother’s guilt
I like to consider myself an exemplary parent, but probably all mothers think that Mum, Mum, Sangjay’s been playing with a python.” Rinchen was hoping to get one up on his elder sibling, but he knew he had to come…