Retro Chic
The People’s Poet Who Preserved Identity
To us, Durgalal Shrestha is known as a People’s Poet in Nepalbhasha, a dramatist, a lyricist, a revolutionary, a true master who fought and survived for Nepalbhasha and Nepali literature. But for himself, he is no extraordinaire but someone who got lucky while searching for his true calling. Born in the year 1937 AD in a small cultural paradise of Kathmandu named Itumbahal, he was raised in a Newah family with its deep rooted values and cultures. For ...
Bhurtel: An Artist in Oblivion
At the stroke of being a septuagenarian, Yadav Chandra Bhurtel is closed to becoming an artist who perished in an oblivion, simply for a fact that he has not hit the mainstream or denied to plunge into a tiny modern-day art culture which capital ...
A People’s History of Nepalese Photography: Kiran M Chitrakar
Kiran Man Chitrakar’s lineage pretty much personifies the history of Nepalese photography with three generations involved. His awe and respect is palpable when he talks about his grandfather, Dirgha Man, who was the royal painter and the first court photographer. And his father, Ganesh Man, ...
Love In The Time of Empire
During his historic visit to England in 1850, Jung Bahadur Rana, the athletic, dark and handsome Oriental prince, captured the imagination of the people and the royalty alike. Among them was a courtesan called Laura Bell. This is the story of a little-known tryst that ...
Lightning Speed: An Odyssey
Baikuntha Manandhar, the iconic sportsman of Nepal, can still be found most mornings where it all began. In fact I met the four times Olympian for this interview, at that same point of inception, the Rangashala Running track.
Remembering Vidhea
In a culture where "the ideal woman" is one that is polite, prosaic and passionless, Vidhea Shrestha provided a refreshing contrast, with a sharp mind and a tongue to match. Her fierce love for life and uncompromised beliefs might have proved too much for some, ...