Nepali photographer and storyteller Nikki Thapa documents the collection and marketing of rudraksha seeds in eastern Nepal, which are used as prayer beads by Hindus and Buddhists.

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In 2008, in a major development in Nepal’s politics, the Parliament voted to end Nepal’s 240-year-old Hindu monarchy.

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Kathmandu: A rousing welcome was given to the former King of Nepal, King Gyanendra Shah, by thousands of his supporters in Kathmandu on Sunday. The supporters welcomed him and demanded the ...

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Thousands of supporters have greeted Nepal’s former king in capital Kathmandu and demanded his abolished monarchy be reinstated and Hinduism brought back as a state religion ...