Moments in Pixels
8 February 2010
Faces
28 January 2010

In 2009, the Obama administration launched programs to give America's unpopular Bush era image a much-needed facelift. Among them was the Democracy Video Challenge, which asked inspiring moviemakers to complete the phrase...

Articles
18 January 2010

The mad beast of 7.0 magnitude that is estimated to have killed up to 200,000 people in Haiti and injured tens of thousands last week, hits home. Not only because Haiti, like Nepal, is one of the poorest countries in the world, but because according to BCPR's...

Making a Difference
9 January 2010

At 19, Nimesh Ghimire is the founder of Minimally Invasive Education, an education project supported by Save the Children-USA, Global Changemakers and the Nepal Government. He recently graduated from Budhanilkantha School and has taken a year off...

Articles
1 January 2010

What does the new year mean to you? For some, it may mean once and for all, dropping the old you and starting anew, to others it may mean partying, music and booze and others may have lost a loved one and lost a part of themselves or gained a new member of a family. And for some, it may just mean another day...

Moments in Pixels
27 December 2009
Articles
14 December 2009

Can peace hold in Nepal? The answer to this question will draw mixed reactions from different quarters. But, whatever the reactions may be, there is a subtle consensus among Nepali politicians that the peace in Nepal is slowly but surely faltering...

Moments in Pixels
8 December 2009
Articles
2 December 2009

I have some serious apprehension and grave concern about Maoists leaders desperately trying to get China as much involved as possible in Nepal’s political developments especially after the establishment of Republican Nepal. Given Nepal’s geopolitical setting and with India’s blatant and outright intervention...

Book Review
28 November 2009

“…nothing works here!”  - Exasperated words of an American woman who marries a Pakistani guy and tries to sow some meaning into her life in Islamabad. Those words...

Articles
21 November 2009

There is a furor in the Nepali press. Namrata Shrestha, well-known model and actress, has the ignoble honour of starring in a sex-tape. The man, and principal photographer, in the video is DJ Tantric, says the press. Tantrik, a married man, is not facially present but Namrata sure is, and caught in some pretty...

Articles
10 November 2009

Ang Maya Sherpa of Thamo village in the Khumbu region recalls the day the Dig Tsho glacial lake burst: "I was 14 years old then and studying at Thame School. We were celebrating phangi, a local festival where the Sherpas entertain by dressing up as bride and groom. Suddenly...

Faces
2 November 2009

Prakash Subedi’s first collection of poems, Stars and Fireflies, was published recently. Subedi, who is affiliated with the Aarohan Gurukul Theatre and the Society of Nepali Writers in English (NWEN), currently teaches at the Dillibazaar Kanya Campus...

Moments in Pixels
26 October 2009