Today, it is normal for male priests to officiate at Hindu worship in Nepal, but there was a time when it was considered more auspicious for women to conduct such rituals. While the tradition of ...

This is the 54th edition of Diaspora Diaries, a regular column about migration in Nepali Times. I have enjoyed playing the flute since I was a young boy. I used to play it in the forest while tending ...

Kathmandu, Aug. 21 -- When women across Nepal's far-western region gather in late summer to sing deuda songs and prepare grain offerings, they are keeping alive one of the region's most distinctive ...

Pilru, a terracotta musical instrument shaped like birds, made by Indigenous Tharu and Kumhar communities from Nepal’s southern plains, traveled from a village in Western Nepal to an art store in ...