In the last days of the monsoon in 2006, a helicopter crash in Nepal’s eastern hills claimed some of the country’s best, including the charismatic environmentalist Chandra Gurung.
Starting with his
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A Concise Geography of Nepal written by Dr. Vinod Prasad Shrestha tries to give a short and comprehensive account on various aspects of Geography of Nepal. The book covers a wide range of topics relat
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"Newari, a Tibeto-Burman language, is the mother tongue of the Newars, the earliest settlers of the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. The Newars have long occupied a culturally important place among the Hima
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"This is the fascinating and moving story of a young Nepali woman seeking answers to life. She was confused by the hypocrisy and corruption she found in the culture she grew up in. There was discrimin
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Scholars of the Ngor Monastery belonging to the Sa skya School of Tibetan Buddhism started to compose a systematic work of theories and practices of Indian and Tibetan mandalas in 1870 and finished it
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Nepal’s conflict ruined the country, tore apart our social fabric, brutalised us and hardened our dealings with each other. One can engage in a discussion on the philosophy of violence, but we have t
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An International Conference on the Anthropology of Nepal: Peoples, Problems and Processes was held in the Hotel Vajra, Kathmandu from the 7th to the 14th September 1992. It was organized jointly by th
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"Terai region of Lumbini Zone situated between Narayani and Rapti rivers is an important site for the Buddhist as well as Archaeologist. This region was associated with the Sakyas and Koliya at Kapilv
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Nepal, a country as diverse demographically as it is topographically, is populated by over thirty culturally and linguistically distinct ethnic groups. Damais occupy a unique place within this imm
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A yant effectue au cours des vingt-six dernieres annees non moins de 32 randonnees ont 26 au Nepal et les autres au Sikkim, Bouthan, Ladkh et Zansker, l’auteur presente une synthese d’une rare variete
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Witness Music, Myth & Newari Tradition in Bagh Bhairab
Some ethnic groups that have been exposed to urbanization have lost almost all contact with their traditions while there are others who still
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