Kumari Ghar

Glimpse of a goddess

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September 27th 2015
I wouldn't call Nepal weird exactly, but there are one or two things about it that are awfully strange. I mean like, where else can you actually encounter – nay, bask in the radiant splendor of – a living goddess? Which is what we did on a visit to Kathmandu a couple of Saturdays ago (we being my university colleague Dave Penrose, his wife Cecilia, and I). Saturday is to Nepal what Sunday is ... read more

Asia » Nepal » Kathmandu

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In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A Maoist in... ... read more