Moomin is Japanese – Finnish – Dutch anime TV series based on the Moomin novels and comic. The Moomin family and their friends live an adventurous life in the idyllic and peaceful Moominvalley in harmony with nature. The largest building in the valley is the Moominhouse, and its occupants welcome all visitors from the valley […]
Thinle Lundup was a Nepali actor of the Oscar-nominated movie ‘Caravan‘ also known as’ Himalaya’.In 1999, “Caravan” was nominated in the best foreign film category in 72nd Oscar Academy Awards, a feat that no Nepali film has been able to repeat since. The caravan is a movie by French photographer Eric Valli. The movie captures […]
Drop everything and look at this dog meeting his best friend, a dolphin. The friendship that went viral last year. In the midst of panicking news all over the media, here is the Dog-Dolphin friendship story that will make you SMILE. The friendship story between a dog named Gunner and a dolphin named Delta will […]
Shiva Shankar Manandhar was born to his mother Ram Maya and his father Man Bahadur on 22 February 1932 in Pako, Newroad of Kathmandu, Nepal. Man Bahadur Manandhar was a volunteer music teacher in the local community and taught classical Newari songs to the youngsters. Shiva Shankar’s musical aspirations were probably inspired by his father’s […]
For any band, surviving more than 20 years in the business is a big deal. But the challenges facing Cobweb’s survival have been rather more gruelling than most. Belonging from one of the financially poorest countries of the world, and have had to try to stay afloat during the country’s decade-long civil war, which ended […]
Born in 1946 in Zanzibar to Parsi-Indian parents, at the age of 8, Mercury’s parents sent him to a boarding school in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, where he studied piano and spent his free time with his aunt and grandparents. It was not long before the charismatic young man joined his first band, the Hectics. […]
The history of rock music in Nepal dates back to the 1970s when there were a few acts influenced by Western bands such as The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Doors, and later Led Zeppelin, The Who, the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden and Deep Purple. Bands in Kathmandu consisted mostly of local people from Kathmandu (a […]
Dev Rana, one of the most iconic drummers of Nepal was born on June 18, 1952, in Sungai Petani, Malaysia. He is acknowledged as the person who introduced drums to the Nepali music sphere for the first time back in the ’70s, Dev Rana belongs to that elite league of Nepali musicians who not only […]
Prem Dhoj Pradhan is a Nepali musician born in 1938 in Chautara, a small town 28 miles east of Kathmandu in Sindhupachowk district. Brought up by his mother at a time in Nepal when music was synonymous with meaningful living, Prem Dhoj grew up to love it. His mother, Pran Devi Pradhan, a talented singer […]
