🛕 Bisket Jatra बिस्केट जात्रा

Bhaktapur’s new-year chariot pull and the great pole raising.

305 days to goTuesday, April 13, 2027 — Wednesday, April 21, 2027

Reading from the neighborhood

Choila, bara, samay baji, juju dhau. The fifteen things on a Newari plate, and what they actually are.

Pottery Square has been making clay for 600 years. There are eight working families left. A short report on what's at stake.

Twenty minutes from Patan and somehow not on any tourist itinerary. A weird, layered hilltop Newari town, mostly intact.

Bhaktapur's "king of yoghurt" is more interesting than the postcard says. Earthen pots, century-old families, and why the texture is what it is.

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