Timothy Aryal, Kathmandu / Dec 24: Picture a dingy, dimly-lit hovel that houses nothing but a famished and an agonised family, desperately seeking an escape. That is exactly what Bhoko Ghar (The Starving Home) opens with. The family of four continually dreams of fleeing from their immediate conundrum. And just like its characters, the play Bhoko […]
Kathmandu / Dec 17: Eminent playwright Govinda Malla Gothale’s distinguished one-act play Bhoko Ghar is slated to be staged at the Theatre Mall in the Capital starting this Friday. The play will be directed by Kedar Shrestha. Written in the ‘70s, the play revolves around crises the Nepali middle-class families go through. The play narrates […]
Prasansha Rimal / Kathmandu: Shyam Karki has more than a decade of experience of working in the audio-visual field. Besides Nepal, he has worked in Saudi Arabia. Blockade is his second directorial venture and his first feature-length documentary. The movie Blockade is about the Indian economic blockade on Nepal in 2015. There was acute shortage […]
Kathmandu / Dec 8: The 14th edition of Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) has started in Kathmandu from Thursday. Minister for Information and Communications Surendra Kumar Karki inaugurated the festival by hitting a KIMFF-labelled gong that drew both the attention and laughter from the audiences from the jam-packed theatre at the Kumari Hall. A […]
Kathmandu, Dec 2: The 14th edition of Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) is set to screen 80 films from 28 countries from December 8 at QFX Kumari Hall and at the Russian Culture Centre, Kamal Pokhari. The festival will showcase documentaries, fiction, experimental and animation movies. This year’s festival will open with the premiere […]
Kathmandu Nov. 26: Miss Nepal World Asmi Shrestha is set to embark for the United States on Friday to partake in the Miss World beauty pageant. This year’s edition, the 66th iteration of the pageant, is being held at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Maryland, US, on December 18. Speaking to the […]
Natasha Jha / Kathmandu : Learning is a continuous process. We learn from everything and everyone. But in this race of learning, we forget to live and love. At nine, I wanted to become a lawyer. I was eighteen when I discovered my potential to achieve my dreams. But in the process of discovering and achieving […]
Mahottari / Nov 5: Sama-Chakeva, the ten-days of festivity, has begun amongst the Maithali communities from today. In the festival that celebrates brother-sister relationship, womenfolk submerge the clay idols of Sama-Chakeva in the pond or river or in the recently-ploughed land, preferably in the woods, on the eleventh day of full moon to mark the […]
Lalitpur / Nov 3: Patan’s popular Kartik Naach has begun from Thursday evening. The traditional dance based on the conducts of Lord Krishna takes place at Patan Durbar Square. The management committee shared that the Kartik Naach will prevail for 12 consecutive days. Committee Chairperson Kiran Manandhar said various castes and sub-castes of Newari community […]
Oct 28, 2016- Nepali feature film White Sun (Seto Surya) will open the 14th Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (Kimff), slated to be held at the Kumari Hall in Kamal Pokhari in the Capital, starting Dec 8. White Sun, which was recently screened in Toronto International Film Festival and Venice Film festival, is slated for […]