Madan Puraskar laureate and essayist Yubaraj Nayaghare discusses his travels and contemporary Nepali literature.

Awadhi, a language rich in heritage and belonging, has long been sidelined in Nepal’s mainstream discourse. Its fading risks erasing centuries of literature, festivals, rituals, and traditional foods.

This month in 2008, Queen Elizabeth II made a last tour of her namesake cruise liner before its retirement in Dubai to become a floating hotel. The queen, who was 82 at the time, visited the QE2 in ...

Nepal's mountaineering community has celebrated the conquest of the world's highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for International Everest Day.

Women doing laundry in Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/A Vahanvaty Seated in a cramped room in Kathmandu, 33-year-old Rekha* recounted her life of struggle as the sole provider ...

Nepal is situated in a region prone to seismic activity, and this recent incident once again highlights the country’s vulnerability to earthquakes, reminiscent of the devastating 2015 quake.

Prithivi Narayan Campus, Tribhuvan University, Pokhara, Nepal Knowledge of vocabulary is an essential aspect of language development. Most of the non-English specialised students feel hesitation in ...

In 1959, Sekelj wrote the book “Nepalo malfermas la pordon” (Nepal Opens the Door), originally in Esperanto, during his stay in Madras, South India, where he divided his time between writing and ...

Thus, this book by Lieutenant General Shokin Chauhan, a Gokha Rifles officer who has travelled often to all parts of Nepal and been a defence attache in Kathmandu, breaks new ground.

Former diplomat K V Rajan analyses Nepal’s distrust and suspicion of India in his new book An excerpt from ‘Kathmandu Chronicle: Reclaiming India-Nepal Relations’, by K V Rajan and Atul K ...

More than 15 years after Nepal officially became a secular democracy, the former Hindu monarchy may have a religious extremism problem, incited and aggravated by its closest neighbor. In an ...

Nepal’s top Maoist leaders reached out to the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra through an Indian academic known for being close to the Nepali ...