This is a photographic record of the 90th birthday party of a man in my neighborhood. This celebration is known as a "jankhu" by the Newari community. The photographs remind us of the joyful and celebratory aspects of aging.

Here is a tiny "film" made with cellphone shots I took of the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok. I wanted to work with the limitations of technology, and see what could be done with something as small, mobile and universal as a cellphone.

  HOME         REGULAR        COLUMNS        POLL        PHOTOS        ARCHIVE        VACANCIES       BLOGS LIFE TIMES About town  Events and eateries in town  FROM ISSUE #525 (29 OCT 2010 - 04 NOV 2010) |  TABLE OF CONTENTS   SUBSCRIBE NT     PRINT    REFER     WRITE TO EDITOR Share 1 EVENTS The Seven Henry Series: In Search of an Ideal Landscape , an exhibition of supracollages by the acclaimed Indic artist Syyed Iqbal Geoffrey.  Starts 28 October, 5.30pm, till 17 November, Siddhartha Art Gallery, Babar Mahal Revisited, Gallery hours: 11am to 6pm, 12pm to 4pm on Saturdays, 4218048 Planet Nepal Contemporary Art Exhibition , installation art and exhibition by various artists.  2 November-...

Gai Jatra, or "Cow Carnival," is a festival that takes place in Kathmandu every monsoon. The story goes like this: A queen loses her beloved child and falls into a depression. Her husband takes the help of a holy man, who promises her that if she can get a sesame seed from the home where there's never been a death, the child can be brought back to life. The procession goes through all the homes where there's been a death that year. The queen finally comes out of her grief when she realizes death is inevitable. Gai Jatra is also characterized by satire of governments and people in high places.  Sushma Joshi took these photos in 2010. These photos show a very small slice of what was going on in Kathmandu on that day. Enjoy!

A Nepali Émigré in Paris and Water were shown at the 3rd Annual Nepali Film Festival in Vancouver. A Nepali Emigre in Paris (2006, 4 min.) Director: Sushma Joshi A Nepali man flees political repression in Nepal in the late 1980s as the fight for democracy begins. After living in Paris for 20 years, he has had no reason to look back - until now, when both his loyalty and his love are torn between two sides. You can see the film on Utube here, by clicking on this link.

We deliberated for about 16 hours and watched 124 shorts before coming up with these results... The film competition was sponsored by DFID and the British Council. _________________________________________ Out of the 126 entries that were received, the following films have been declared winners by the three member jury which consisted of Dr. Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha (writer and conservationist), Sushma Joshi (writer and filmmaker) and Kesang Tseten (writer and filmmaker). Winning Short Films Director(s) Position Act Locally Think Globally Santoshi Nepal and Ishu Lama Winner Jeopardy Shiva Sharan Koirala 1st Runner Up 3 Cs of Climate Change Binod Kr. Dhami and Padam Raj Paneru 2nd Second Runner Up Get Your Act Together Suresh Limbu Special Mention

29 AUGUST, 2009 SHOOTING CLIMATE CHANGE SUSHMA JOSHI When Basanta Thapa of the Himal Association called me up and asked me if I’d like to be one of the jury members of the UK Nepal Climate Change Competition, it sounded easy. “We’ve received three films,” he said. “About seven have registered to send more.” We estimated at the most about two dozen films, each three minutes long, that we’d watch in one sitting. When I rushed in at 9:15am at the judging venue, and said: “I hear we now have 70 submissions!”, Basanta Dai said to me: “Its now 124!” The numbers were incredible, if only because a few years ago one could count the number of filmmakers on the fingers of two hands. As we sat down to watch the first film, I got a tingle in my scalp from the excitement. There were 124 filmmakers in Nepal who were not just interested in climate change issues but who had actually gotten it together to submit films? This, indeed, ws good news for Nepal. This explosion of filmmaking had co...