Photo Essays
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A journey to Surma Sarovar.
The Surma Saravor Jatra is a six day-long festival celebrated every even years of the Nepali calendar by the people of Darchula’s Ghajir and Chetti villages. This year, 10-16 August, photographer Kishor Maharjan following the bire, those men making the arduous pilgrimage in the footsteps of the goddess Surma Devi, from their villages to the Surma Sarovar lake in Bajhang.
COMING SOON: Kishor Maharjan’s short essay explaining the pilgrimage!
All photos by Kishor Maharjan
Perspectives
10 min read
We cannot protect ourselves if we don't protect others. And the time to act is now.
Features
6 min read
Meet six young Nepali artists with stories to tell, styles of their own, and a passion for art that’s digital.
Perspectives
4 min read
Cancel culture might embrace the postmodern ideas of freedom of expression and the plurality of truths but it also dismantles old truths to embrace new absolutes.
Perspectives
16 min read
Lavkant Chaudhary’s debut solo exhibition “Masinya Dastoor” not only draws from the past, but also engages in the historiography of the present.
Explainers
9 min read
Nepal’s caste system continues to crush and kill Dalits
Features
8 min read
The rise of food delivery companies in Kathmandu reflects the expansion of the city’s middle-class and their changing appetites.
Interviews
10 min read
Part 1 of the conversation with educator and psychologist Madhav Khatiwada on the need for improved mental health infrastructure in Nepal.
Features
7 min read
By opening up traditional art forms to women and other castes, young musicians are making certain musical heritage like the dapha, believed to be the oldest form of bhajan in Nepal, will live on.
