Kathmandu, Oct. 27 -- Melissa Arnot Reid first came to Nepal in 2008 as an assistant guide on an Everest expedition. She was 23 and had been guiding for only three years. She had arrived, by her own a... Read More
Kathmandu, Oct. 18 -- Mamta Kafle Bhatt, a native of Nepal, moved to Northern Virginia, US, in 2021. She was last seen at work on July 27, 2024. Her last known contact was a video call with her mother... Read More
Nuwakot, Oct. 13 -- Until the first glimpse of the rising waters, it was just an ordinary Wednesday morning at a bridge over the Bhotekoshi river at Trishuli Bazar in Nuwakot. Motorcycles honked and c... Read More
Kathmandu, Sept. 29 -- When Sachin Dangi arrived in Pokhara for two months of work, the cheapest decent apartment he could find cost him $30 a day. Not 4,600 in Nepali rupees, but 30 US Dollars. He re... Read More
Kathmandu, Sept. 23 -- When Samrat joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness Gurukul in Kathmandu as a school bus driver, he believed he was serving a higher divine purpose. His wife ... Read More
Kathmandu, Sept. 5 -- Pariyar, who likes to be identified by only her last name, is a breastfeeding mother who is three months into caring for a newborn who does not stop crying. On the morning of Au... Read More
Kathmandu, Sept. 2 -- Guna Maya Bohara sometimes sings at night. It is the same bhajan-Hare Ram, Hare Krishna-that she used to sing during her stay at the elderly care home and during temple visits. S... Read More
Kathmandu, Sept. 1 -- For four days, a couple in Nuwakot each believed that the other had been swept away by the flood. They were on opposite sides of the water, cut off, with no way to confirm the ot... Read More
Kathmandu, Aug. 18 -- The girl had only asked a question. Seema (name changed) was in grade 7 in Rithapata in Bhajang District, when her teacher first explained that human reproduction involved inter... Read More
Kathmandu, Aug. 13 -- Milan Chhetri was 12 when his period first arrived. In his home in Dailekh, Karnali Province, the tradition was clear: anyone who menstruated did not stay in the house. For five ... Read More