Aaraniko

As the process of constitution drafting chugs along in Nepal, one fundamental question hasn't been debated enough. The form-of-governme...

In June 2014, I was invited to speak to Nepali students aspiring to study in the US. The event was hosted by United States Education Founda...

            At the recent Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) conference at Yale University, I had a good fortune of meetin...

Recently, I had an exciting sensory experience. I discovered that I was able to hear songs from memory. It does not sound like much but it ...

Set in rural France during WWII, this small film is heartbreakingly beautiful. This story involves the friendship between an orphaned five-...

Film # 8 -  Bright Lights, Big City Bright Lights, Big City stars Michael J Fox who works as a fact-checker for a New York magazine in...

Film # 7 -  Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011) A just-released Bollywood movie for a change! Surely not the stuff of Ebert's greates...

Film # 6 - The 400 Blows (1959) It has been a few days of missing posts but that doesn't mean that I haven't been keeping up wi...

Film # 5 - Gone with the Wind (1939) Clocking in at about four hours, this is long. I had to watch this classic American epic in two sitt...

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) Based on a historically tragic episode of racism and injustice in the name of "progress" perpetrated...

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) The film begins with a montage of mundane vistas of a day in New York City. There are cars on the road, people ...

Manhattan (1979) In one word, Manhattan is: beautiful! Yes, this a romantic comedy with Woody Allen and his trademark neurosis and rat-a-...