June 5, 2011 was World Environment Day. Some parts of Kathmandu are bubbling with positive energy with treehuggers spreading awareness on sustainable consumption and environmental awareness. I hoped to contribute my fair share by taking likeminded individuals (tree huggers) to a free screening of a documentary – “The age of Stupid” in Patan. Having blogged [...]

World Environment Day 2011: Art to create cognition on climate change

Kathmandu played host to “Pulp Society” an Indie rock band from India beginning of May this year. The band, here to promote the upcoming movie “404 -Error Not Found”, played at 1905, Kantipath. Much thanks to our dear friend Pradhyumna, I along with other friends from work managed to weasel our way into an invitation only event. [...]

Psych your mind with Pulp Society

I don’t hike, period! However, I am at times goaded into following the pack. Throw in a few incentives such as the opportunity to test out my now not-so-new camera pack, I accede myself to the physical abuse of body and soul. The hike officially began for the nine of us (Abhit, Ashok, Badri, Dadi, [...]

Shivapuri Chisapani and Sanku over two days

Ruining a perfectly good landscape are about four brick factories in Godavari. This panorama as seen from the restaurant/dining space at the Godavari Village resort, is  a composite of eight different images stitched with Microsoft ICE and uploaded onto Photosynth. You will need a browser compatible with Silverlight to view this panorama. Alternatively, the same panorama [...]

Panorama of Brick kilns at Godavari

This is one of many hoarding boards that span across the walls of the Dasarath Rangasala Stadium in Tripureswor opposite the UWTC shopping mall. Perhaps, its just a typo and would have been easily missed if it had occurred in a newspaper or magazine but with text at least a few feet across staring at you every [...]

if only we had designers who could spell in Nepal