Videos
1 MIN READ
Celebrating momos with a street festival in New York City's Jackson Heights.
The Jackson Heights, Queens, neighborhood of New York City is home to one of the largest concentrations of South Asian businesses in North America. Each year, Nepali, Tibetan, Indian and Bhutanese restaurants take part in the Momo Crawl — a street festival that is at once a celebration of Himalayan regional cultures and a challenge: restaurants compete to serve the most delicious dumpling.
This year, rookie competitor Chet Bahadur Thapa Magar took on the reigning momo champion, Bimala Hamal Shrestha. Magar and his wife, Anju, opened their own mom-and-pop kitchen, Chef CBTM Bistro, earlier this year, after decades working in other people’s kitchens. Their momos are fresh and juicy, but will they be able to out-shine Shrestha’s restaurant, Nepali Bhanchha Ghar? Shrestha has won three times already and received recognition in the New York Times.
Salman Ahad Khan also contributed reporting.
Features
7 min read
The indigenous Uranw have been lobbying for the Karma puja to be recognized nationally so that community members can get holidays to attend a festival of social cohesion and community bonding.
Features
Photo Essays
9 min read
Bhaktapur shows how prioritizing community ownership over foreign aid can help in reconstruction even as Kathmandu remains locked in a confusing mess of national and international stakeholders.
Opinions
4 min read
Supporting the Black Lives Matter movement goes hand in hand with actively dismantling the caste system
Interviews
17 min read
Kunwar’s interview with Malla, the businessman-bard, is deeply philosophical even in the midst of playful banter
Features
12 min read
Kesang Tseten, in documenting these grueling stories, has done his part by successfully bringing the experience of the Nepali migrant worker to our attention, and has thus recorded history in unforgettable images.
Features
30 min read
Two brothers are combining palliative care expertise, linguistics and AI to encourage more effective conversations between doctors and people receiving end-of-life care.
Perspectives
6 min read
If local people do not gain any benefits from national parks and buffer zones, whom is this conservation for?
Perspectives
6 min read
The sporadic global events keep reminding us that the fate of these workers is prone to fragility the same as the country’s sources of foreign revenues.
