The Week
Insta inspiration: Some fashion Instagram accounts that can inspire you to style yourself...
Insta inspiration: Some fashion Instagram accounts that can...
Fashion is ever evolving and it’s very hard to stay updated with every new red carpet look, celebrity collaboration collection, and fashion week standouts. If you feel like you don’t have enough time to read through every fashion article, then you can still catch up with the happenings of fashion wo...
Dec 21, 2018
WORLD
U.S. plans for more than 5,000 troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan
U.S. plans for more than 5,000 troops to be withdrawn from A...
WASHINGTON, Dec 21: President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more than 5,000 of the 14,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a U.S. official said on Thursday, in the latest sign Trump’s patience is thinning with America’s longest war and overseas military interventions.
Dec 21, 2018
The Week
Summoning all Potterheads
Summoning all Potterheads
All of us who have read Harry Potter as a child have wondered what it would be like to attend a Defense Against the Dark Arts class or taste the candies at Honeydukes Candy Shop at Hogsmeade. Now you can. The Children’s Art Museum (CAM) Nepal is organizing a Harry Potter themed event on Saturday, De...
Dec 21, 2018
The Week
Shradha Ghale’s Kathmandu Leela: Setting new challenges and standards in novel-writing
Shradha Ghale’s Kathmandu Leela: Setting new challenges and...
At the very outset, and seemingly offhand, I extract the very first paragraph from Mr. Louis Menand’s latest essay in The New Yorker, of December 10, 2018, which opens in this way:
Dec 21, 2018
The Week
On her own
On her own
KATHMANDU, Dec 21: Prasuna Dongol, while studying filmmaking in the UK, returned to Nepal a total of five times during her four year undergraduate program. “I returned a month after going to the UK. I just missed home too much,” she says. In all the times she came back to Nepal, she traveled extensi...
Dec 21, 2018
The Week
The gift of comfort
The gift of comfort
KATHMANDU, Dec 21: Even in today’s day and age, there are still households in our country that hold a very medieval perception of natural human bodily cycles like menstrual periods. Instead of taking it as a healthy and natural change, families treat it like an unwanted happening that makes the fema...
Dec 21, 2018
The Week
Choosing happiness
Choosing happiness
KATHMANDU, Dec 21: I’m an inherently rude person. I think I take after my mother who has never been afraid to call a spade a spade. In our locality, she is known for her bluntness and she is proud of it. When I was growing up, I always saw her standing up for what she thought was right. She wasn’t t...
Dec 21, 2018
The Week
Sportsman for life
Sportsman for life
Badminton has been, for a very long time, called a ‘gentleman’s game’. The sport is Eurasian in its roots and easily one of the most played sports in the world, especially the Asian countries. Players from China and Japan have been dominating the world rankings for decades now. In Nepal too, badmint...
Dec 21, 2018
The Week
Style your sneakers: A basic guide to sneakers styling
Style your sneakers: A basic guide to sneakers styling
Athleisure is a fashion trend that many seem to be completely taken by in recent times. It’s what we see celebrities opt for all the time these days. After all, if you can be highly comfortable while looking good then that’s just so much better, right?
Dec 21, 2018
The Week
Tips for adventure travel
Tips for adventure travel
KATHMANDU, Dec 21: Nepal is a paradise when it comes to adventure travel. We have eight out of 14 tallest mountains in the world as well as the most exciting trekking trails including the Annapurna Circuit, Everest Base Camp, Annapurna Base Camp etc., to name a few. And every year, thousands of peop...
Dec 21, 2018