My translation of a chapter from anthropologist Dor Bahadur Bista’s historical fiction ‘Sotala’
In September 2018, I received an offer from ICIMOD to cover the Nepal-China Tourism and Trade Fair to be held in Waltse village (or Halji) in the trans-Himalayan Limi…
From the 17th century till the 1960s, Newar traders from Kathmandu regularly crossed over into Tibet, where they set up trading establishments, lived for years at a stretch, and…