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The anatomy of violence in the Madhes

Nepal, Aug. 6 -- Eleven years ago, the struggle in the Madhes for autonomy and inclusion under a new federal Constitution came at the cost of 45 lives. On 26 July, a street dispute in a town near the ... Read More


Nepali artists pay homage to Banaras

Nepal, Aug. 5 -- Ganga Aarati, Bipin Chherti An ongoing exhibition at Kathmandu Art Gallery, Homage to Banaras, brings together two generations of Nepali artists whose lives have been shaped by this c... Read More


A flood of worries

Nepal, Aug. 4 -- iving beside a river during the monsoon needs constant vigilance. The Rudramati is not the sacred river it once was: it carries the city's sewage, is a flowing rubbish dump, and on ho... Read More


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