The British Parliament discusses Nepal's Covid crisis after Nepalis organised a petition.

Newars create artwork in almost everything and everywhere, and the doors to their homes are no exception.

The biggest blunder is disqualifying indigenous people from their rightful ownership of community structures.

A look at Nepal’s oldest illuminated manuscript at the Cambridge University Library

Mathbar Singh’s manuscript explains Shah’s entry into  Bhaktapur where he grew up 

Nepali art took a radical turn from the traditional to a contemporary European vein towards the mid 19th century and the earliest known Nepali artist to have incorporated western realism in his work was a local artist from Patan, Rajman Singh Chitrakar.

Tracking down Nepali artefacts peppered around museums in Europe and beyond can be a treasure hunt of sorts.

Most of what we had known about Jung Bahadur Rana’s Europe trip was from a lost diary narrated by his son Padma Jung, published posthumously, in 1909.

The 1802 British expedition to Nepal by surgeon-naturalist Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was seminal for two reasons—it introduced 1,100 species of plants to the world of botany and it gave the world the very first scientific map of Nepal.

In the winter of 2006, my first visit to Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum in London was for a rare exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci’s original sketches.