NONFICTION The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow In The Dawn of Everything, Graeber and Wengrow challenge our presumptions about the…
On Arniko, the Nepali artist at the court of Kublai Khan
How Buddhism formed the crux of political relations between ancient Nepal and Tibet
Fiction The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez: An extraordinary short story collection about the macabre and the supernatural in everyday life, I read this book by…
One of the most incredible journeys I undertook during the writing of All Roads Lead North was to Mustang, to the north of Pokhara. Until a decade ago, one…
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…
Behind the scenes: how we made the cover for All Roads Lead North
How has China been able to extend its influence in South Asia – an essay-review of Bertil Lintner’s The Costliest Pearl