I'm on a brick patio at Northfield, a popular café in Kathmandu, Nepal, strumming “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” on my guitar alongside Les Thompson, a founding member of the pioneering SoCal folk and ...

Out beyond Bollywood hits, American pop, and adhunik Nepali songs, which are more often than not an amalgamation of the other two, is Bipul Chettri’s music. The tinkling of cow bells and the soothing ...

When Bipul Chettri released his first song Wildfire/Dadhelo on the online audio platform Soundcloud, it spread among Nepalis (and Nepali-speakers) like flames. We heard him hinting at a forest fire ...