Ravi Bahadur Shakya exemplifies how age-old craft prospers in 21st century

Sitting on his father’s lap, Ravi Bahadur Shakya of Lalitpur learned how to mould the clay and wax into figurines of birds and animals. But as his lap grew wider than his father’s, Shakya started nestling many sculptures of gods, goddesses and other deities and moulded them with his hands, taking over the aeons of history that his…