Category: Nepal

Published in the Op-Ed section of The Independent on 6 November 2010     I fixed my eyes on the back of the taxi driver’s head, willing him to outmanoeuvre every vehicle on Kathmandu’s busy streets.  It wasn’t that we were travelling slowly, but I longed for excessive speed.  A knot of anxiety had formed […]

Published in The Independent on 2 November 2010 I was looking hard to see her, but I’m not sure that I did.  Several others were equally beautiful, and appeared to stand just as tall. I’d summoned a young Nepalese waiter to help me.  “She is behind side, with a black face,” he said enigmatically. As […]

Published in The Independent, June 2010 All images are subject to copyright @ Musa Ibrahim [slideshow] Musa Ibrahim became a household name overnight after being declared the first Bangladeshi to reach the summit of Mount Everest.  The nation’s newest sporting hero has received a tide of tributes over the last three weeks and he has […]