Kathmandu

Author : Thomas Bell
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781910376393

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One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences from his many years in the city—exploring in the process the rich history of Kathmandu and its many instances of self-reinvention. Closed to the outside world until 1951 and trapped in a medieval time warp, Kathmandu is, as Bell argues, a jewel of the art world, a carnival of sexual license, a hotbed of communist revolution, a paradigm of failed democracy, a case study in bungled western intervention, and an environmental catastrophe. In important ways, Kathmandu’s rapid modernization can be seen as an extreme version of what is happening in other traditional societies. Bell also discusses the ramifications of the recent Nepal earthquake. A comprehensive look at a top global destination, Kathmandu is an entertaining and accessible chronicle for anyone eager to learn more about this fascinating city.

Author : Thomas Bell
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184006469

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Kathmandu is the greatest city of the Himalayas—a unique survival of cultural practices that died out in India 1000 years ago. It is a carnival of sexual licence and hypocrisy, a jewel of world art, a hotbed of communist revolution, a paradigm of failed democracy, a case study in bungled Western intervention and an environmental catastrophe. Closed to the outside world until 1951 and trapped in a medieval time warp, Kathmandu’s rapid modernization is an extreme version of what is happening elsewhere in many traditional societies. The many layers of the city’s developments are reflected in the successive generations of its gods and goddesses, witches and ghosts, the comforts of caste, the ethos of aristocracy and kingship and, of late, the destabilizing spirits of consumer aspiration, individuality, egalitarianism, communism and democracy. Kathmandu follows the author’s story over a decade in the city and unravels the city’s history through successive reinventions of itself. Erudite, entertaining and accessible, this is the distinctive chronicle of a fascinating city.

Author : Gerry Virtue
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780980635799

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Kathmandu by Gerry Virtue Pdf

In the mountains of Nepal, a young boy, Ashok, flees Maoist violence in his village. Sadananda, an old Kathmandu holy man, takes him in and teaches him how to survive in the city. Five years pass, and Andrew, an aid worker, is accidentally given a cryptic, confidential letter in his Kathmandu hotel. He quickly becomes the target of menacing figures, including Merrick, an urbane, dangerous Englishman. As the hunt intensifies, Andrew meets Ashok and his English friend, Kate, who take him to Sadananda for advice. While he considers the problem, the old sadhu distracts them with tales of the ancient Himalayas: how a primeval lake became the Kathmandu Valley; how the Buddha’s disciple overcame murderous robbers in the Great Forest; and how a Kathmandu prince escaped Nepal to forge an alliance with the king of Tibet and regain his throne. But when Ashok goes missing, Andrew is plunged into a frightening world of conspiracy and deception

Author : UNESCO Office Kathmandu
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : 9789231000706

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Revisiting Kathmandu: safeguarding living urban heritage by UNESCO Office Kathmandu Pdf

Author : Dale Whittington ,Xun Wu
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789061451

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Improving Water Governance in Kathmandu: Insights from Systems Thinking and Behavioural Science by Dale Whittington ,Xun Wu Pdf

The global water and sanitation community is currently wrestling with the policy implications of two important realizations. The first is that it is quite possible for cities to actually run out of water–for the piped network to run dry. The second is that in many locations, basic water and sanitation interventions do not result in the large public health improvements that many water and sanitation professionals had hoped. As water and sanitation professionals work out the implications of these two realizations on policy and planning for water and sanitation improvements in the Global South, they will require an in-depth knowledge of local housing, water, and sanitation conditions, as well as a nuanced understanding of how households prioritize improvements in housing, water, and sanitation. The chapters in this book about Kathmandu illustrate the types of analyses of local conditions that are needed. Kathmandu holds many lessons for the global community about households’ responses to water scarcity and the management of water and sanitation services in periods of rapid urbanization and climate change. In Focus – a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further conversations in the secto

Author : Raza, A., Pandey, H., Lobo, A.S., Ganpule-Rao, A.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251357675

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Urban food system and nutrition assessment in Kathmandu, Nepal by Raza, A., Pandey, H., Lobo, A.S., Ganpule-Rao, A. Pdf

This report is an outcome of the Urban Food System Assessments for Nutrition (UFSAN) project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The objectives of the UFSAN project were to: develop and pilot a holistic tool to assess nutrition and food systems in urban areas, with the aim to guide policies, programmes and investments towards a range of potential food system actions that promote better nutrition and healthy diets; pilot the tool in four cities: Ahmedabad and Pune, in India, and Pokhara and Kathmandu, in Nepal; and disseminate the findings of the UFSAN tool among nutrition and food systems stakeholders in these cities.

Author : Mohul Bhowmick
Publisher : Xpress Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781638861324

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Seeking Kathmandu by Mohul Bhowmick Pdf

In early 2020, at the age of 21, leaving all modes of support behind, Mohul Bhowmick set out on a solo trip to Nepal. Out of this came Seeking Kathmandu, which is an acclaimed piece of travel literature. Resplendent with tales of delight and hardship as well as the magnanimity and generosity of his hosts, this book speaks in agonising detail about the pleasures and pains of solo travel. Painting pictures with his flawless lyrical language and deep metaphysical examinations, Bhowmick takes the reader on an extremely pleasing visual journey of the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, from the finesse of Kathmandu to the squalor of Bhaktapur and the grace of Pokhara. This is a travelogue like no other, albeit it being the author's first venture into non-fiction after three successful books of poetry.

Author : Bo Belvedere Christensen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788771701579

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Poor Kathmandu by Bo Belvedere Christensen Pdf

Kathmandu is a wonderful place to visit, but when you wander around in the city you meet a lot of poor people; beggars, street vendors, holy men, and a lot of others. How do these people get by? Can they afford to send their children to school? Where do they live? How is their family life? These and a lot of other questions the author posed himself after visiting Kathmandu many times, and he decided to find the answers. He spend a long time in Kathmandu only to ask the poor themselves, take their pictures, and sometimes visit their homes. This book does not intend to answer the maybe most important question; how do we change the situation of poverty in Kathmandu and even more importantly, the rest of Nepal. The book can only be regarded as a personal experienced situation report, but it gives an insight into the situation and into the lives of a few people living in extreme poverty. The author is a writer, photographer and mountaineer who has visited Nepal many times, often to climb, but he has a personal liking to the poor people of Kathmandu.

Author : K.V. Rajan,Atul K. Thakuir
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789357087087

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Kathmandu Chronicle by K.V. Rajan,Atul K. Thakuir Pdf

In recent decades, Nepal’s history has been marked by tumultuous events and transformations, and its relations with India by sharp fluctuations. From the Maoist insurgency to the hijacking of IC 814, from the Palace Massacre that wiped out King Birendra and his entire family to the coup by King Gyanendra against democracy, among others, the much-vaunted India–Nepal ‘special relationship’ has repeatedly experienced setbacks, some of them with long-term implications. What are the real causes of regular anti-Indian eruptions in Nepal, and why is there so much mutual distrust and suspicion despite India’s best intentions? Anecdotal, definitive and deeply researched, Kathmandu Chronicle opens a window to many stories of India–Nepal relation that largely remain untold and therefore unknown till date.

Author : Amy Willesee,Mark Whittaker
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466872325

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Love and Death in Kathmandu by Amy Willesee,Mark Whittaker Pdf

On June 1, 2001, the heir to the Nepalese throne, Crown Prince Dipendra, donned military fatigues, armed himself with automatic weapons, walked in on a quiet family gathering, and, without a word, mowed his family down before turning a gun on himself. But Dipendra did not die immediately, and while lying in a coma was declared king. He was now a living god. Award-winning journalists Amy Willesee and Mark Whittaker set out to understand what could have led to such a devastating tragedy, one that fascinated and appalled the world. Exploring Kathmandu and other parts of the kingdom, they conducted exhaustive interviews with everyone from Maoist guerillas to members and friends of the royal family, gaining insight into the people involved in and the events behind the massacre. At the heart of the story is the love affair between Dipendra and the beautiful aristocrat Devyani Rana, whom he was forbidden to marry. Culminating their portrait of Nepal is a chilling reconstruction of the events of that fatal day. As conspiracy theories circulate and rebels threaten to topple the monarchy, the future of this small Himalayan kingdom promises to be as tumultuous as its past. Revealing a country where the twenty-first century mingles uneasily with the fourteenth, Love and Death in Kathmandu is both an enlightening portrait of a place that is a world apart and a riveting investigation of an incredible crime.

Author : Rajbhandari, N.P. ,Ransom, J.K. ,Adhikari, K. ,Palmer, A.F.E.
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Corn
ISBN : 9789993320517

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Sustainable maize production systems for Nepal. Proceedings of a Maize Symposium; Kathmandu (Nepal); 3-5 Dec 2001 by Rajbhandari, N.P. ,Ransom, J.K. ,Adhikari, K. ,Palmer, A.F.E. Pdf

Author : Arun Gupto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317369226

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Goddesses of Kathmandu Valley by Arun Gupto Pdf

In South Asia goddesses are conceptualized and worshipped in a fascinating range of forms — from cosmic beings to bacterial manifestations, from human-like appearances to creatures with animal and insect semblances. This book maps the diverse identities of goddesses through metaphors of grace, rage and knowledge, and offers an in-depth insight into femininity, sexual politics, ritual worships, religion, ecology and gender. Grace manifests as motherly sublimity, warring protectors, and varying personifications of sexuality. Rage encapsulates the fearful aspects of goddesses and independent identities of women. Knowledge evokes associations with order, reason and intellect in conflating gendered binaries of body/mind and nature/culture. The volume explores how these deity attributes are expressed and embedded through anthropomorphic as well as inorganic forms of nature, beautiful women, multi-legged and many-armed animals, epistemic selves, demonic beings, glamorous personifications as also grotesque sub-humans. A methodological combination of critical theory, mythological and philosophical concepts, along with popular ethnographic narratives and lived experiences, this monograph will greatly interest scholars and researchers of religious studies, cultural studies, folklore, art, literature, sociology and gender studies, especially those interested in Nepal and Hinduism.

Author : Abhay K.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789388134583

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The Eight-eyed Lord of Kathmandu by Abhay K. Pdf

In these rapturous poems, Abhay K. catches the allure and mystique of Kathmandu, its maze of medieval streets, thronged bazaars, twilit courtyards, the aromas of its ancient alleyways, the drift of incense from its crumbling temples, and the raucous chant of its life. He is the all-seeing eye, the seer who brings to light a city and its people with a rare immediacy of speech and a boundless imaginative empathy.

Author : Swan Aung
Publisher : Swan Aung
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Three Popular Himalayan Recipes from Kathmandu by Swan Aung Pdf

This book provides simple and easy to follow three popular Himalayan recipes from Kathmandu for readers. This book shows you how to make three popular Himalayan meals from Kathmandu easily in your own kitchen.

Author : David Stuart Ryan
Publisher : kozmik press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-05
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780905116051

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Looking for Kathmandu by David Stuart Ryan Pdf

A novel by David Stuart Ryan. Now available as an ebook (0 905116 05 4) A couple set out to look for Shangri-La and become immersed in the mysteries of the East. 'A well-written thoroughly enjoyable book evoking the romance and adventure of this last frontier. The overland trek is particularly well handled as you would expect from a seasoned round the world traveller.' Printer's Pie review.