Remembering an eco-tourism project in Afghanistan, following the footsteps of Ahmad Shah Massoud Kids playing on rusted tanks abandoned by the retreating Russians, war debris comfortably incorporated into stone walls to contain sheep and goats, and flickering green flags of…
The concrete corridors of Singha Durbar echo with government gravitas, their office windowssoberly shrouded in net curtains. Kathmandu diplomats calling on Nepali ministers are familiarwith the regular request to “please encourage your country’s private sector to invest in Nepal.”Despite the…
Tribute to Nepal’s most celebrated Ayurvedic doctor Rishi Ram Koirala who died last week at age 63 I had an appointment with Rishi Ram Koirala the day before he suffered his fatal heart attack. Last week Nepal has lost one…
The lockdown provides an opportunity to tick off nocturnal wildlife from the mammal list “Does it have a tail?” “I can’t see because it’s sitting on it.” “What about its eyes and coat?” “Bright and black eyes with spikey brown…
The unusual story of the godson Prince Philip acquired during his first visit to Nepal in 1961 The Sherpa leader and guardian of the yeti scalp, Konjo Chumbi, and his young wife were hurrying down from Khumjung on the Sagarmatha…