It’s noon. Nischaya Gauli, 16, is lethargic after five classes straight. Weighed down with hunger, he runs to the school cafeteria.

At Brihaspati Vidya Sadan School where Gauli studies, a proper meal of rice, lentil and seasonal vegetables is served but Gauli prefers samosa, doughnut and instant noodle over the nutritious diet that the cafeteria offers.

On May 8, Darshan Rauniyar (Democrat) became the first and only candidate in Washington State’s 1st District Congressional race to oppose a proposed coal train and terminal in Bellingham, Washington.

“I’m proud to stand with the Washington Environmental Council, Sierra Club Washington, People for Puget Sound, and the Washington conservation voters in the fight to defeat this proposal that would threaten our air quality, marine wildlife, and contaminate soil in communities along the proposed rail line,” he said in the announcement.

Madhav Bista looks across the sprawling urban jungle of rapidly expanding Kathmandu Valley, lamenting what he remembers when it was all fields.

But he is not talking about some bygone bucolic idyll slowly suffocated by concrete over decades; the green and pleasant Kathmandu Valley he recalls was a reality just a few years ago.

The Week’s Cilla Khatry had an exclusive view of the 4th episode of Nepali: A TV Blog, a television series about the broader scopes of Nepali identity, and how our diverse identities connect us as Nepalis.

A preview: A municipality in Kailali district of Western Nepal, Tikapur is the most planned city in the nation. Located 595 kms away from the capital, the city was named Tikapur as it is sort of shaped like a tika, the Hindu mark on the forehead.

On Wednesday, as a thunderstorm brewed in the sky above, laborers quietly continued working on various construction projects going on in the expansive Nepal Agriculture Research Council (NARC) campus.

At the main gate, the rusting white signboard that said Nepal Agriculture Research Council (NARC) in bold red type was gone, and a concrete structure built in its place. But for now, it is just a cement structure with no paint or signage.

It is almost one year to the day that I reviewed Broadlink vs. World Link vs. NTC Internet services (as all three were installed in my small home office) – and if you recall – Broadlink smacked down the competition with its faster speeds, cheaper rates, and a unique roaming service.

But that was a year ago, and in Internet time, that was almost an eon ago.

“English is a very funny language,” my Middle School English teacher often remarked. And it was funny how despite it being a funny, alien, queer language, we were very much required to learn it and master it.

Much like how it is funny that I will be expressing this angst we non-English-speaking world have against Angrezi in Angrezi.

The lumberjack would drop in unannounced. By the time he asked my dad, “Master, you have any work for me?” he would be standing in our backyard.

The lumberjack looked old—60—maybe older. He mostly wore a white dhoti that had acquired faded yellow color due to overuse.

Retail therapy: My solution to all of life’s woes!

CILLA KHATRY

I have over a dozen handbags, countless pairs of shoes, and a room bursting with clothes and knickknacks that desperately call for a garage sale.

“When you cook a dish, you should cook with all your heart and mind,’ says Kala Subba, RJ at Hits FM, “otherwise you won’t be able to bring out the best taste in the dish.”

Subba had learnt the know-how of cooking from a very early age. She remembers her first dish to be a summer squash vegetable when she was studying in class 2.