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...weekly 11 a.m. English-language Buddhist lecture by its renowned abbot, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. For lunch, and a glimpse of local woodwork, bronze and painting, head to the Patan Museum and Patan Museum Café, tel: (977-1) 552 1492, at Patan Durbar Square. In the late afternoon, take a taxi to Baber Mahal Revisited, an upscale shopping and entertainment complex housed in the beautifully renovated stables of an old palace. Boutiques and galleries are tucked inside narrow passages and flower-filled verandas. For coffee, take a seat at Chez Caroline, tel: (977-1) 426 3070; for upscale Nepali...
...Across the street, Wild Earth, tel: (977-1) 437 4178, sells locally made soaps and essential oils. For a quick refuel, Lazimpat's Ambassador Hotel has a tiny but relaxing café, Cibo, tel: (977-1) 441 0727. From there, you can choose either the Narayanhiti Palace Museum on Durbar Marg for more sightseeing or venture into Thamel, a maze of narrow alleys, cafés, restaurants, climbing shops, bookstores, CD stalls and more. Book a table for dinner at a local favorite, Tukche Thakali Kitchen, tel: (977-1) 422 5890, on Durbar Marg for traditional Nepali cuisine...
...with sounds of gun-fire heard coming from the BDR headquarters in the heart of the capital Dhaka, where some 4,000 BDR troops were gathered, along with approximately 160 officers (temporarily asigned from the army to command the border security force). The occasion for the convocation was a durbar, or gathering of troops, the previous night. After over 24 hours of intense negotiation and the offer of a general amnesty - followed by a direct appeal by the Prime Minister to the rebels to lay down their arms - troops were readied to storm the BDR headquarters, a threat that finally...
...FOREIGN OFFICE This Victorian government building in Whitehall is a picture of neoclassical grandeur and extravagance. The highlights include the Grand Staircase with its marble columns and lavish murals, and the magnificent Durbar Court: three generous stories of granite arches and intricate friezes, capped by a glass roof...
Standing before Mukesh Mehta’s household adornments (in Montana, mind you, on the cusp of 2006), I gesture to the telltale gold-fringed palanquin and the turbaned figure of the emperor. I note how he is enveloped by a halo. A Mughal durbar, I tell Mukesh. Maybe Jahangir. Perhaps Akbar. But certainly not Aurangzeb—he didn’t go for this artsy-fartsy stuff...