Inside buses on their daily commute Nepalis are used to listening to familiar-sounding songs that feature alternating female and male voices, responding to one another, often cheekily. Called lok ...

KATHMANDU: Eating just nun, khursani and dhido and wandering around the remote villages collecting words and tunes of songs seem quite crazy an idea in these sophisticated days. But this was exactly ...

Gandharva and Prastar are the two other Nepali bands playing at the Jazzmandu Festival starting on March 11. The other one was Cadenza — the band who introduced Jazz festival in Nepal.Gandharva ...

To neighbors on the quiet, leafy street where he lives on Columbus’ Northeast Side, Peter McDonough, 37, appears typical enough. He mows his lawn, plays outside with his two young daughters and ...

Lochan Rijal is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and scholar of ethnomusicology. He is a researcher of Nepali folk music and traditional instruments and has also been sharing his knowledge ...

A self-taught 25-year-old musician from Darjeeling, Ankita Chettri, was given a unique opportunity to teach 30-odd musicians from across the world a Nepali song in Germany. Ankita was selected for ...

Singer Shrinkhala Joshi decided to shoot her Nepali folk song music video on Sydney trains, wearing traditional Nepali attire. The song titled "Sydney Jhaney Rail" translates to "the train that goes ...

When Deepti D’Cunha was on her maiden visit to Sikkim in 2011, she found herself being chased by a song everywhere. The “immensely hummable” tune put her in “a skippy, joyous mood” every time, even ...

One of the most popular recording artists in Nepal is Gajab Bahadur Gurung Lama, which translates in English to "strange and wonderful thing." But I know the artist as Josh Brody, my big brother. Josh ...

As you near Siliguri, a few kilometres from Bagdogra, the Teesta becomes your constant companion till you reach Yuksom, a little town in western Sikkim. The river of Himalayan origin takes on ...