Consonant Aspirations

One of the first things I learn to say in a foreign language is how to say, "I'm from..." or "I come from...", mainl...

This is something that has been bugging me a little bit since I was in Nepal back in October last year. It concerns the orthographic represe...

Last night, an English guy at my guest house here in Namche mentioned that despite his attempts at speaking Nepalese (sic) with people on th...

People who are familiar with Indic writing systems will know that unlike in alphabetic writing systems (like the Latin alphabet we use in En...

During dinner at L. and S.'s, L. shared a proverb / saying that according to him was popular with soldiers (he used to be in the army, t...

The other day I had to catch a taxi out of town to a place called Thecho just to the south of Kathmandu. The great thing about being in a ...

Arrived safely in Kathmandu yesterday. Singapore seems a world away. Except that all the tourist-oriented cafes look like they belong in Sin...