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Kartik Naach and the Art of Soft Governance

Kartik Naach and the Art of Soft Governance
२०८२ कार्तिक १९ गते १२:१० by Simon Paudel

How a 17th-century performance in Patan transformed devotion into discipline and ritual into rule

November 4, Kathmandu. Today, the ancient square of Patan’s Charnarayan Temple came alive once again for the eighth act of Kartik Naach- a performance that has managed to outlast empires, earthquakes and even pandemics. The King Who Wouldn’t Kill Word has it that back in the mid-1600s when King Siddhi Narsingh Malla was on the

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