Photo Essays
1 MIN READ
A journey to Surma Sarovar.
The Surma Saravor Jatra is a six day-long festival celebrated every even years of the Nepali calendar by the people of Darchula’s Ghajir and Chetti villages. This year, 10-16 August, photographer Kishor Maharjan following the bire, those men making the arduous pilgrimage in the footsteps of the goddess Surma Devi, from their villages to the Surma Sarovar lake in Bajhang.
COMING SOON: Kishor Maharjan’s short essay explaining the pilgrimage!
All photos by Kishor Maharjan
Perspectives
6 min read
In this new edition of Tim Gurung’s series on his life and times, he details the changing business climate in China and his eventual turn towards the literary world.
Interviews
11 min read
A 1963 interview with writer and critic Krishna Chandra Singh Pradhan
Writing journeys
6 min read
Introducing ‘Writing journeys’, a new series curated and edited by Tom Robertson where Nepali writers reflect on their non-fiction writing.
Perspectives
9 min read
Concealed in a package of humor, cringe culture makes bullying palatable and the intolerable tolerable.
Explainers
13 min read
Some call NFTs a new era of ownership on the internet while others say it’s a fad and a threat to the environment. But what exactly are NFTs?
Explainers
4 min read
Misinformation and false claims about the pandemic, however, continue to spread especially through the social media.
Features
7 min read
The indigenous Uranw have been lobbying for the Karma puja to be recognized nationally so that community members can get holidays to attend a festival of social cohesion and community bonding.
Books
5 min read
Niranjan Kunwar’s memoir of life as a gay man is the honest account that Nepal’s literary sphere and LGBTIQ community have long needed
