Girls from the Nepal’s Newar community are married thrice. But not all three times to men. They are first made to marry a bael fruit, also known as wood apple. They are then married to the Sun, before ...

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The Newars of Kathmandu valley have graced Nepal with resplendent architecture, lost-wax and repousse metalwork, lattice windows—and with such marvels as mamacha, a spicy, delectable version of ...

Nepal boasts a remarkable diversity of manuscript collections, encompassing vital texts on subjects ranging from Hinduism and Buddhism to poetics, medicine, and law. Originating from across the ...

Newars, the indigenous settlers of the Kathmandu Valley, are one of the largest ethnic communities in Nepal. During the five-day Nepali festival of “Tihar”, the Newari people not only celebrate their ...

Name: Himalayan Café in Baldwin Park. Why you made the trip: Chef Uttham Adhikari is turning out several Newari-inspired festival dishes, served exclusively at his newest Himalayan Café (with branches ...

We're in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal to explore the food culture of this vibrant city and region. We start in Patan, one of the Kathmandu Valley's three cities and explore traditional Newari food.

KATHMANDU: Plans are afoot to build a Newa Museum, a treasury of the Newari culture to be set up in Kathmandu. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on June 6 floated an idea to build four museums ...

The greatest crime an architect of our origin can commit in this century is to see our traditional architecture as only the facade and try to breed it to the functional requirements of a project Nepal ...

Newari girls attending a ‘bel’ marriage ceremony in Kathmandu yesterday. Bel marriage is a ceremony in Newar community in Nepal in which pre-adolescent girls are ‘married’ to bel fruit (wooden apple), ...