The Week
Learning a language
Learning a language
Learning a new language is no small feat. You will probably have to practice for months before you can even string together words to make a proper sentence. But let that not frustrate you and deter you from learning a new dialect.
Jan 11, 2019
The Week
Making time for yourself
Making time for yourself
If you find yourself tired and irritated at the end of the day, stressed out by school, college or work, it can get difficult to find a motivation to get up and do it all over the next day. In between all the hassle, you need some time, a few hours, to yourself when you can catch a breath and feel i...
Jan 11, 2019
The Week
A touch of class
A touch of class
Gold ornaments aren’t the only jewelry we know of these days. Everything from silver to brass and various other materials like felt and wood is used to make accessories these days. And what’s more, people seem to be favoring these jewelry items over conventional (not to mention pricey) gold rings an...
Jan 11, 2019
The Week
A taste of the best
A taste of the best
The choices to eat out are aplenty in Kathmandu with a restaurant or café at almost every corner of the street. But fine dining isn’t an option at a lot of these places. Chimes Restaurant at Sanepa, Lalitpur, caters to this need as well which is what makes it slightly different from all the various...
Jan 11, 2019
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