(Oct 22 note: Photos related to this post will be posted later this week.) Ten minutes to the walk, I felt a pinch on my knee. Left side of…
To the plains, I traveled a distance of about 96 kilometers in the past 36 hours. Of those thirty-six hours, I spent almost 11 hours in Jeeps (four in total…
Long and mostly tiresome bus journeys.From THE valley to the almost plain to the lap of the giant hills where I always love to be in. This moment is on…
[This is a bilingual post. यो पोस्ट दुइ भाषामा छ। Read a news report on the earthquake here] The alarming (or positive, depending on your perspective) aspect is that the…
Kathmandu: A small group of criminals set a passenger bus on fire at the Manohara bridge early in the morning today (around 4:30 am). The bus was coming out from…
New Baneshwar, the Constitution Assembly town in Kathmandu, looks like a battle zone. Riot police have overtaken the public spaces where on a normal day one would see people chatting…
Bus ride: definitely not a joy ride. Challenges of driving on a single lane ‘highway’. I had gone to some rural villages of Lalitpur last week to see and experience…
New Baneshwar, Kathmndu.6:41 pm NST. Posted from WordPress for Android
Got myself registered with the Election Commission of Nepal this afternoon. They needed my (Nepali) Citizenship Certificate and some additional information that are not printed in nagarikta. I was required…
This shaded trail leads to the central offices of one of the most controversial and inept government entities (corporations) of Nepal. Seen today. No, they were not staging sit-in protest…
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