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Eyes wide open in Mustang

Jan 7, 2025 | nepalitimes.com | Kunda Dixit

As a struggling photographer in Bhaktapur 30 years ago, Kishor Kayastha could not even afford furniture. Buying a new lens was out of the question. Later, as one of Nepal’s top fashion and travel photographers, Kayastha toured the world, doing shoots in exotic places for famous brands. Money was not as much a limiting factor anymore. Then came the accident.
Nepal’s flying doctor

Aug 22, 2024 | nepalitimes.com | Kunda Dixit

Bhogendra Kathayat successfully defended his PhD thesis at Tribhuvan University, and the very next night he was at Tribhuvan International Airport. No, not to emigrate, but to captain a Nepal Airlines Airbus A330 on a 7-hour flight to Narita. Capt Kathayat, 41, is now the only PhD airline pilot in Nepal, and one of a handful actively flying internationally. Read also: Standing above the crowd, Ayesha Shakya Born in the village of Sanischare in Morang to a farming family, it was a hard life.
Jail the messenger

May 28, 2024 | htsyndication.com | Kunda Dixit

Kathmandu, May 28 -- Scream lies to drown the truth. Gag free expression with free expression. Spread falsehood faster than facts. Sow distrust so facts don't matter. Jail the messenger. That is the tip sheet of populist demagogues the world over to add a poison tip to social media. The disinformation is intended to unravel the social fabric, and dismantle trust in institutions to gain power. Blocking their way are the liberal democratic system and the press, and this is why they are targeted.
Mountains of books

May 24, 2024 | nepalitimes.com | Kunda Dixit

Reviews of three books about the Himalaya to mark the centennary of 1924 Everest expeditionEmpirical climbing There have been many books and even films made about George Mallory and Andrew Irvine who disappeared below the summit of Mt Everest exactly 100 years ago.
Jim Simons' gift to Nepal

May 10, 2024 | nepalitimes.com | Kunda Dixit

James Harris (‘Jim’) Simons, the mathematician and billionaire philanthropist who set up a foundation to improve Nepal’s healthcare system, died in New York on 10 May, aged 86. Jim Simons was an award-winning mathematician who pioneered quantitative investing and gave away much of his billions to support mathematics education, scientific research and various humanitarian causes. But his life was marked by family tragedies.
Catapulting to Singha Darbar

Mar 6, 2024 | nepalitimes.com | Kunda Dixit

The more things change in Nepali politics, the more they remain the sameWe are now on Season 3 Episode 1 of Nepal’s promiscuous political saga. The Maoists and the UML have joined hands for the second time in a year to form a new leftist-led coalition. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal of the Maoist Centre has replaced the NC with the UML and the United Socialists.
The Shépa lexicon

Feb 19, 2024 | nepalitimes.com | Kunda Dixit

Many browsing the shelf of a bookstore or library may see Shépa written in bold all caps on the cover of this book, and misread it as 'Sherpa' and think it is yet another book on the ethnic group from the Khumbu. That happened to this reviewer when a copy arrived by mail. But Shépa in Tibetan actually means ‘explanation’ and is a unique form of oral poetry sung in the question-answer style and the intangible heritage of Tibetan-speaking people in danger of dying out.
Nepal cook book

Feb 15, 2024 | nepalitimes.com | Kunda Dixit

There has been a feast of new books covering Nepali cuisine and recipes in recent years: A Taste of Nepal, The Rana Cookbook, Nepali Home Cooking & Healthy Living, Timmur. The list goes on. Rohini “Dolly” Rana, the author of The Rana Cookbook: Recipes from the Palaces of Nepal, has now come out with yet another book, The Nepal Cook Book: 108 Regional Recipes.
Kathmandu’s legacy is Götz Hagmüller’s legacy

Feb 3, 2024 | nepalitimes.com | Kunda Dixit

Austrian architect who made Nepal his home, and preserving its heritage his life’s work03 February 2024Götz Hagmüller, the Austrian architect who made the cultural preservation of Kathmandu Valley’s cultural heritage his life’s work died on Friday in Bhaktapur, the town he helped restore. Hagmüller died peacefully in his sleep at Kuthu Math, the former pilgrim’s guesthouse in Bhaktapur which he helped restore and where he lived for most of his life in Nepal. He was 85.
Imagine no possessions

Oct 23, 2023 | htsyndication.com | Kunda Dixit

KATHMANDU, Oct. 23 -- What do we call a people without fixed addresses, without land or proof of citizenship? And what do we call a people who have no desire to possess any of these things?'In 2011, when photographer Kishor Sharma made his first encounter with Nepal's last truly nomadic community in the highlands of Salyan two days walk from the nearest road, he struggled to be accepted and understand their lifestyle.