This week I was accompanied on my travels by my daughter Ground Zero and Dolly, a pocket bully puppy who… This week I was accompanied on my travels by my daughter Ground Zero and Dolly, a pocket bully ...
Kumari Puja was performed in front of the Taleju Bhawani Temple at Basantapur, Kathmandu, on the occasion of Indra Jatra on Monday. A mass worship of 504 young girls from the Newar community dressed ...
The eight-day-long Indra Jatra festival began with the raising of Yosin or Lingo, a ceremonial wooden pole, at Hanuman Dhoka premises in Kathmandu Durbar Square on Sunday morning. Known as Yenya in ...
Cultural expert Tejeshwar Babu Gwanga (R) spoke to SBS Nepali about the cultural significance of Gai Jatra. Credit: (L) AAP/Sipa USA/SOPA Images/Bivas Shrestha, (R) SBS Nepali/Prayas Dulal ...
Eaten any buff lately? Oh, you have? Then you’ve probably been to Lakhey, a city restaurant that aims to change the way Melbourne thinks about Nepalese food or, more realistically, encourage more ...
Women pull a chariot during Indra Jatra, a festival that marks the end of the rainy season in Kathmandu, Nepal. Source: AP / Niranjan Shrestha/AP Every year, Nepal celebrates the Indra Jatra festival.
At Majipa Lakhe nani, near Basantapur, as Shiva Ranjit cooks one Newa delicacy after another, beads of sweat form on his forehead. Celebration for Nasa Dyo (the god of music and dance) has just been ...
Laxman Ranjit walks on past the Kasthamandap, one of the Valley’s oldest buildings, from which the city gets its name. There are days when he stops by it briefly. The structure that dates back to the ...
Laxman Ranjit walks on past the Kasthamandap, one of the Valley’s oldest buildings, from which the city gets its name. There are days when he stops by it briefly. The structure that dates back to the ...