Arniko biography for kids
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About Me
Strangers have mistaken me for a foreigner while at home in Kathmandu and Zürich, and for a local while abroad in Rome, New York, Mexico City and Santiago. With parents from two countries, a spouse from a third, and children born in a fourth, I have come to feel very much at home at airports and looking out the airplane window, appreciating the beauty of our planet, and the fact that we see the same sun and moon from everywhere.
I have been fortunate to spend my childhood alternating between remote mountain villages in Nepal and my relatives’ homes in Switzerland, growing up to be equally at ease chasing goats and riding escalators, equally at home in smoke filled Himalayan kitchens and riding my uncle’s BMW in Basel.
At age 18 I crossed the Atlantic for the first time to join Harvard for my Bachelors. For the next 19 years I was based at US universities, continuing through a masters, a doctorate, two postdocs and a faculty position. I took every opportunity to r
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Newar people
Native ethnic group of Nepal
"Newar" redirects here. For other uses, see Newar (disambiguation).
Ethnic group
Newar (;[6]Newar: नेवार, endonym: Newa; Newar: नेवा, Pracalit script: 𑐣𑐾𑐰𑐵𑑅), or Nepami,[7] are primarily inhabitants in Kathmandu Valley of Nepal and its surrounding areas, and the creators of its historic heritage and civilisation.[8][9] Newars are a distinct linguistic and cultural group, primarily Indo-Aryan[10][11][12] and Tibeto-Burman[13][14] ethnicities, who share a common language, Nepal Bhasa, and predominantly practice Newar Hinduism[15][16][17][18] and Newar Buddhism. Newars have developed a division of labour and a sophisticated urban civilisation not seen elsewhere in the Himalayan foothills.[5] Newars have continued their age-old traditions and practices and pride themselves as the true
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Great Artist Arniko
Arniko
Arniko was born in Nepal in 1244. He went to the court of Yuan Dynasty in China at the age of seventeen. He made Stupas in