Hotels likely to return to Nepal’s national parks

[ad_1] Nepal’s Ministry of Forest and Environment is preparing fresh regulations to allow hotels to return to national parks such as Chitwan, a decade after they were shut down based on environmental concerns.Although rumors were doing the rounds in the...

Chasing the Buddha’s shadow: A Newar Buddhist festival in Nepal

[ad_1] To visit the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal during the famous Gunla festival is to experience the vibrant culture of the Newars, and get a glimpse into India's lost Buddhist past /news/big-story/nepal-buddhism-newar-gunla-panchadan-swayambhu-kathmandu-111712315238025.html 111712315238025 story Just over a thousand years ago,...

Fiction: A middle-aged Nepali man comes to terms with his sexuality in an orthodox social system

[ad_1] It was quite early in the morning, but Krishna’s first thoughts were about Iqbal, his barber. Though his wife was nagging him, he left the house and walked to the salon like there was no time to lose. The...

Are snakebites rising in South Asia — and what’s responsible?

[ad_1] In 1950, Roald Dahl wrote a short story titled Poison. The tale, set in colonial India and often found in deckle-edged children’s anthologies, tells a riveting story about racism. In the story, a striped snake called a common krait...