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Nepal needs to overhaul its rape laws

Nepal, Aug. 3 -- Every now and then Nepal is reminded of its misogyny, when a rape case becomes so tragic that the country is taken aback by its own violent gender hierarchy. Girls who do not survive... Read More


A gateway to Nepali hospitality

Nepal, Aug. 2 -- ecades ago, Khem Lakai was working in a hotel in Bahrain when he encountered many young Nepali migrant workers. Unlike his job, many were working back-breaking, low-paying unskilled j... Read More


Nepal's biggest export to India: Instagram reels

Nepal, Aug. 1 -- Aclip from Kathmandu, September 2025. A young man plants himself in front of a police water cannon, letting the water jet smash into him. Ten months later the same frame is circulatin... Read More


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