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For long a sleepy rural enclave, Thamel is today the beating commercial and cultural heart of Kathmandua dizzying square kilometre of hotels, bars, cafés, bookshops and temples to which visitors and residents gravitate, drawn by its dazzle and its possibilities. In this unusual biography of the place, Rabi Thapa revisits the haunts of his youth. Tramping around its temples For long a sleepy rural enclave, Thamel is today the beating commercial and cultural heart of Kathmandua dizzying square kilometre of hotels, bars, cafés, bookshops and temples to which visitors and residents gravitate, drawn by its dazzle and its possibilities. In... Read More