Time Spent Together

The older women of the family gather upstair in the house to chat. These are important occasions for reinforcing family bonds. Women in Nepal still pass a great deal of time chatting in this way, although younger women are now busy with work and school and so such gatherings are becoming less frequent amongst that generation.

The Big Feast

December 24th 2007
The Big Feast People in Nepal love to have feasts. Newars have probably developed the art of the feast to the highest level of any group in Nepal. While their old culture is centered around many rituals, each ritual goes hand in hand with a feast. The most important of all the feasts in the lifetime of an individual are probably the wedding feast and the feast after death. When a person dies in ... read more

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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

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