The Radiant Star

Day: Jan 31, Thursday
My wife has bought a scooter and I am the one who has benefited. I have been driving it around the city and witnessing the traffic fiasco everyday. Now, after almost riding 1000km on the scooter, I feel that: to understand Kathmandu, it’s essential to understand the roads of Kathmandu.
Here is my [...]

I completed a weeklong tour to Eastern Nepal, Darjeeling and Sikkim on three days ago – and wanted to write a few things about it – but the tour was so tiring that I failed to gather enough courage to do so. As a few of us in our 25-member touring party rightly put – [...]

The greed of seeing the sun rising as a golden ball is always an elusive offer and when there are mountains tops that are glorified by the early morning rays, it’s surely a life-time experience. And, that dreams became a reality when I had a chance to travel up to Sarangkot, a must-not-forget destination in [...]

Friday, May 11, 2007 at 10:30 AM: I jumped off a slope at Sarangkot, Pokhara to glide freely on air. As I jumped off the slope, I was on air, flying freely. After a few minutes, as I looked down, I could see the whole city of Pokhara and famous Fewa Lake under my feet.
I [...]

A thing good about junket trip for journalist is you don’t have to worry about the expenditure. A thing bad about it is you sometime have to work hard for sending news.
When Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) invited me to be a part of the trip to Rasuwa for a cycling event to promote the [...]