Like a weather vane pointing east, a goat stands motionless on top of a Buddhist temple. Others slumber interlaced on its main pedestal. And one or two nibble orange flower petals a devotee left as an ...

This week, Kathmandu is a city of goats. People are walking goats on leashes on the sidewalk. On motorcycles, goats are sandwiched between the driver and the passenger. They teeter precariously on bus ...

No Dasain is complete for a Nepali without mandatory meals of goat curry and rice, and it seems this appetite will not be dampened even by earthquakes or blockades. Nearly three-quarters of Nepal’s ...

When I was growing up in Nepal in the 1990s, I couldn't wait for Saturdays. What made them extraordinary wasn't the fact that my father would make me go buy milk from the government dairy truck at ...

Anywhere a goat wants to hang its hoofs is home. Like a weather vane pointing east, a goat stands motionless on top of a Buddhist temple. Others slumber interlaced on its main pedestal. And one or two ...

The people of Nepal like goat dishes. They like goat sacrifices. But not all local goats meet such a fate. In one town, goats do as they please.... Like a weather vane pointing east, a goat stands ...