Category: Nepastery
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Nepali Times: Culture Revolution
Foreigners are often puzzled why Nepalis never take to the streets despite the chronic failure of the government to provide basic services. It is true, Nepalis are a tolerant lot. But this week, something snapped. Citizens have been gathering on the streets, braving water cannons and tear gas to oppose a bill in Parliament that […]
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Galbandi गलबन्दी | Prakash Saput & Shanti Shree Pariyar | Anjali Adhikari | Bola Maya | 5K
Galbandi गलबन्दी | Prakash Saput & Shanti Shree Pariyar | Anjali Adhikari | Bola Maya | 5K
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Golfer Pratima Sherpa is one step closer to her professional dreams
Pratima Sherpa’s drive from Santa Barbara to Beaumont, California, is about four hours, on highways and interstates, past strip malls and mountains, into the California desert. Awaiting her is the unofficial start of her professional golfing career. The 19-year-old amateur from Nepal was given a Symetra Tour sponsor’s exemption to this weekend’s IOA Championship presented […]
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Immigrants from 10 nations have temporary protected status in the US
Immigrants from 10 nations have temporary protected status in the US …continue reading
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Meet the 10-year-old coder grabbing the attention of Google, Microsoft and Michelle Obama
Scroll through Samaira Mehta’s Instagram and you’ll see that she is a lot like other kids her age. She posts about having a lemonade stand, going swimming and doing the “In My Feelings” dance challenge. But she also stands out from other 10-year-olds — Mehta is CEO, founder and inventor of CoderBunnyz, a board game […]
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Happy Buddha Jayanti – song dedicated by Ani Choying Drolma
#Buddhist #Hindu #Peace #Harmony
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More tourists are visiting the country, but they are spending less money
Tourist arrivals crossed the coveted one-million mark for the first time in 2018, with 1.17 million foreign visitors streaming into the country, but their spending plummeted to a seven-year low. According to statistics from the Tourism Ministry, expected to be released next week, the average spending per tourist per day dropped to $44, the lowest […]
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How Did Chickpea Flour, A Staple Of Indian Cuisine, Become A Health Food Sensation?
There’s a specific section of my family’s fridge that is reserved for the large, seemingly bottomless tub of chickpea flour — or as we and lots of other Indians who also rely on it call it, besan — that my parents keep on hand. We’re not gluten-free, nor do we do a lot of baking. […]