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Case stacked against sexual violence survivors

Nepal, July 31 -- In 2023, Mira received a private message on her Instagram. It was from graffiti artist Aditya A, better known as SadhuX. Mira, who was 17 at the time and interested in graffiti, was ... Read More


The snow leopard man

India, July 30 -- odney Jackson first visited Nepal in 1976, and was the first to radio collar a snow leopard. At 83, he remains active as the founder of Snow Leopard Conservancy. Environmental journa... Read More


Devendra Raj Panday's 'idea of integrity'

Nepal, July 29 -- evendra Raj Panday who died 15 July in Kathmandu lived a remarkable life that was a shining multidimensional mosaic. The constant guiding beacon he followed and espoused for others w... Read More


The geography of ambition on Mt Everest

Nepal, July 28 -- am writing this in Nepal, but I carry the topography of Bangladesh in my bones -- a land of floodplains and rivers, an unrelenting flatness where the horizon is a soft line between w... Read More


Nepal revives the purity and popularity of paubha

Nepal, July 27 -- More than 1,300 years ago a unique devotional art form evolved in Kathmandu Valley's unique Hindu-Buddhist civilisation. Called paubha, the scrolls were painted with natural pigment... Read More


How to cool down Kathmandu's heat bubble

Nepal, July 26 -- Like other South Asian cities, Kathmandu also grapples with the trilemma of rapid urbanisation, ever expanding and often unplanned grey infrastructure, and an increasingly challengin... Read More


The early years of flying in Nepal

Nepal, July 25 -- 3April, 1933 The first recorded flight in Nepal's airspace was by British pilots Lord Clydesdale (Douglas Douglas-Hamilton) Flight Lt. D.F. M'Intyre, on two Westland PV3s with Brist... Read More


Nepal's Brocracy

Nepal, July 24 -- Prime Minister Balendra Shah's government that was elected four months ago, riding a wave on the Discord platform is now itself ridden with discord. The Prime Minister, his small in... Read More


Blending faith and fashion in Nepal

Nepal, July 23 -- reen is the colour of the Nepali month of Shrawan. It is the middle of the monsoon, and the countryside is emerald green, the air is clean and there are sacred festivals every other ... Read More


Social media age bans won't make children safer

Nepal, July 22 -- When I joined Facebook in 2009, I believed in the mission that founder Mark Zuckerberg espoused: to connect and empower people around the world. We all know how that turned out. Met... Read More