Kathmandu Was Kasthamandap...
March 12th 2011 Ok, so it doesn't have quite the same jaunty ring as the They Might Be Giants’ classic "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", but humor me. It seemed like a good idea in the moment.
The name issue, though, does get at the heart of something I learned on my recent trip to Nepal: that Kathmandu is a whole lot more complicated than I would have ever imagined. First of all, today’s massive urban spra
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