Nepal, Oct. 14 -- When Nepal's national heritage is cited, famous monuments pop into our mind: Dharara, Pashupatinath, the ancient Darbar Squares. History glorifies monarchs and elites for building them. However, we usually overlook the Kami, Nepal's industrious blacksmiths, and their forges and anvils. They produced the tools without which no monument was possible, built roads, bridges, and watermills. The Kami helped build Nepal. Historically, Kamis smelted, slagged, pounded, hammered, forged and tempered metals using ingenious indigenous technologies. The forge embodies a rich living knowledge system, which combines sensory skills of heating, bending, blending and tempering. Grounded in rich oral stories, myths and cultural memories, ...