It may seem absurd at first if I tell you that you could trick your own brains into doing things that you have always wanted. Most often, your perceptions about events and circumstances are based on what you’ve seen and experienced in the past.

Shop-in-shop is a very common concept abroad whereas it is fairly new to the Nepali population. Timro concept store is a market that works around the idea, and has opened the floor for many individual and small enterprises to sell their products. Before having a space of their own, the store used to sell its products through online platforms.

Roots Eatery is one of those joints that is neatly tucked within the labyrinth of our city, Om Bahal, near the Freak Street area, to be more specific. The restaurant is surrounded by buildings that are being reconstructed post the quake. There is a miniature version of a Stupa and a well that dates back centuries on its side and Roots Eatery too comfortably blends in with the background in its Nepali architecture inspired building.

Essential oils are becoming popular by the day. These natural aromatic volatile compounds, obtained from different parts of plants, swiftly change their state from solid or liquid to gas at even normal room temperature. We find a number of manufactured goods in the market that utilize essential oils but its at-home uses are just as efficacious. Laxmi Dutta Panta, from Herbs Production and Processing Co. Ltd (HPPCL), tipped The Week on some DIY methods for using essential oils. Though there are hundred of ways you can use essential oils at home, Panta shares some of the most common ones here with The Week.

Lately, I have been asked a lot about my career change. These are the people I have met for the first time, some I have known for a few hours. The very certain question is “After achieving a Chartered Accountancy degree, which is lot of hard work, why did you switch your stream?

Photo books are instrumental sources of photographs incorporated with texts that tell a visual story of what has been shot and how it has shaped the photographers that have taken the images. They are useful in studying the work of some of the really good photographers to find inspiration, develop your own ideas and style, and learn to visualize the world. Mandala Book Store displays various such photo books out of which The Week’s Joshna Karki picked the following six works that immortalizes the crafts, culture, lifestyle, norms and customs of the land of temples, Himalayas, adventure, and Travel – Nepal.