Silver 'mohars' bearing the home-grown era once circulated on either side of the Himalaya.

The tradition was given up in the 1960s after the old Tibet trade came to an end.

I gnored by the media, dismissed by the parties and unbeknownst to the public, homeowners in the Valley’s historical townships have been frantically trying to save their ancestral dwellings from being demolished by the juggernaut of the road-widening campaign.

Bal Krishna Tuladhar was cast in his fatherís mould, as the saying goes. He learned to make statues from his sculptor father and went on to produce masterpieces rivalling his fatherís creations.