It’s an urban legend—maybe a confidential one, since few Filipino nationals or even Davaoeños know—that during the Commonwealth era, the...
We imagine Kathmandu as a city nestled in clean, verdant green valley, whose temple-framed vistas take the eye all the way to the snow-capped Himalayas beyond, once the Shangri-La of hippiedom.
Work brought me to Kathmandu in the dead of winter this year.