Thamel Quotes

“After a drink or two I feel attached to Lalitpur, the city of beauty; it seems to have retained something that Kathmandu lost in the hurly-burly of being a third world capital”
― Rabi Thapa, Thamel

“the village all grown up and demanding a pair of Levi’s”
― Rabi Thapa, Thamel

“I did not want to warm my hands over a moment that had long passed”
― Rabi Thapa, Thamel

“The Valley was settled, civilised and debauched - a depthless lake levelling out to a cluster of paddy-fringed temple cities that eventually merged into a sprawling dust bowl of a metropolis. Today the Bagmati [river] has shrunk to a snail's trail of gooey sewage. Modern-day Kathmandu festers around it, three million souls crouched across 900 square kilometres, hoarding the fat of the land, awaiting the day of reckoning.”
― Rabi Thapa, Thamel: Dark Star of Kathmandu

“It's hard work to retain a childlike curiosity in the familiar”
― Rabi Thapa, Thamel: Dark Star of Kathmandu