Q: How do you take a country ideally suited for tourism, and quickly wreck it beyond repair?
A: Just do what Nepal has done to its travel industry.

At Davos this week, everyone spoke of the digital divide. What about the school divide, the hospital divide, the housing divide, the wealth divide?

We all know what Nepal\'s horizontal land area is. But what if we flattened all the mountains into a roti, and measure the entire surface area? Nepal could then be the size if the subcontinent! So maybe we should say there are six directions in Nepal: north, east, West, up and down.

Community training and individual responsibility are the tragic lessons of Gujarat.

Temple tops struggle to be seen behind brands of bottled beverages, cigarettes and home appliances.

No record of Buddha's visit to the Valley exists other than hearsay attached to hallowed spots. Like a small courtyard in Patan.

A group of international artists is using Nepali material for a traveling exhibition called Made in Nepal: 2001.

The rather masterful reproduction of Rana-era structures in Baber Mahal Revisited is about copying intelligently.