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Book review: What Binod Chaudhary's memoir says about making it in Nepal

Kathmandu, Aug. 15 -- The country's sole dollar billionaire, Binod Chaudhary's, new memoir, 'Made in Nepal: Lessons in Business Building from the Land of Everest', is, above all, a window into his min... Read More


Book review: The nurse who chose Jumla over the world

Kathmandu, Aug. 8 -- Radha Paudel's Madan Puraskar-winning 'Attack on Khalanga' has been out for 13 years now. The English translation itself, 'Jumla: A Nurse's Story', is coming up on a decade of bei... Read More


How Nepal's gym culture is growing beyond the young generation

Kathmandu, Aug. 4 -- In recent years, the number of young people going to the gym has gone up significantly; this everyone knows. But it is not just a question of how many more people are working out,... Read More


Theatre review: When power dictates the verdict

Kathmandu, Aug. 3 -- Last Thursday, July 29, at Shilpee Theatre was the premiere of Pabitra Khadka's play 'Miss Menuka: Ek Sambhedanshil Younkarmi'. An adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's La Putain Respe... Read More


Exhibit review: The language of Poubha

Kathmandu, Aug. 2 -- The more you look, the more there is to see in Shankar Kumar Joshi's and Sankha Narayan Shrestha's Poubha paintings - such is the intricacy and attention to detail that the art fo... Read More


Bhanubhakta beyond Ramayan: The other side of Nepal's most revered poet

Kathmandu, Aug. 1 -- This year's Bhanu Jayanti came and went, as it does every year, without much controversy. The day saw celebratory poem-recitation competitions, extended morning assemblies in scho... Read More


Exhibit review: The language of Paubha

Kathmandu, July 31 -- The more you look, the more there is to see in Shankar Kumar Joshi's and Sankha Narayan Shrestha's Paubha paintings - such is the intricacy and attention to detail that the art f... Read More


Documentary film review: The revolution that took their childhoods

Kathmandu, July 27 -- Robot Koenig's 'Returned: Child Soldiers of Nepal's Maoist Army' is a 2008 documentary film which follows the lives of a few of the many thousand child soldiers who have returned... Read More


BOOK REVIEW: Nothing is quite what it seems in 'Paridhi'

Kathmandu, July 25 -- If I had to sum up Uma Subedi's new novel 'Paridhi' in one word, I think the word would be 'trippy'. The novel has many all too realistic aspects, and yet, almost throughout the ... Read More


Movie review: The ambitions and plotholes of 'Gauthali'

Kathmandu, July 22 -- Kapil Rijal's new movie 'Gauthali', named after its female protagonist, picks up salient themes of patriarchy and mental illness. Gauthali, two years out from appearing for the S... Read More