Is shamanism just superstition or a result of the placebo effect?

When I moved to Patan three months ago, it took me a while to discover all the graffiti scattered. But thanks to that art, I learnt to see Patan through a different lens.

Learning to love books was a slow, torturous process but understanding their perceived lack of value is soul-crushing.

I confess I have a problem, and I keep thinking about mitigating it.

Nepal is poised to produce surplus electricity in a few months, but there are still a few wrinkles the country needs to iron out.

How I got to meet a living goddess and what it taught me about tolerance.

I let the ambiguity hang in the air. There are a thousand ways of saying no.

Being home felt like meeting an old friend trying hard to impress that things were going great.

The purpose of a dog is not to be good but to be just themselves.

We fill our lives with the memory of absences, and mine is filled with Kathmandu’s images.

It’s not like it used to be, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

The last time I was home, I visited the playgrounds where I spent most of my childhood. It had not changed much. Yet so much had.

If I go home for Dashain this year, maybe I could hear the echoes of my father calling out to me a couple of decades ago to drive our cattle towards home.

You can't expect anything else from silence, like termites--they are invisible but deadly.

An ode to the trees that reminds us that beauty is still a possibility.

For the five years during which I lived in Nepal, my name was not mine. It was a reflection of my muddled identity.

Shunned by affluent and middle-class families, public schools and marginalised communities are left in ruins.

Lessons on living in the present--even in fleeting moments.

People like Tatai, capable of loving, appeared unreal to her. Like a mask would someday come off and a disaster would unfold.

Many from the younger population may be unaware of Gandharva’s contribution to Nepali music, but people from my generation remember him for the genius he was.