Tales from the Café is a contemporary Japanese magical realist novel. It is set in Funiculi Funicula, a Tokyo café where it is possible to travel to the past. The novel blends the everyday and the supernatural and subverts many time-travel tropes.
From the Maoist insurgency to the hijacking of IC 814, from the Palace Massacre that wiped out King Birendra and his entire family to the coup by King Gyanendra against democracy, among others, the much-vaunted India–Nepal ‘special relationship’ has repeatedly experienced setbacks, some of them with long-term …
Unleashing Nepal tells the story of Nepal’s changing economy, from the time of unification to a remittance economy driven by the labour of Nepal’s diaspora.