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Nepal, Feb. 2 -- On full-moon nights in October and the Nepali New Year in April, hundreds gather to worship at the sacred pond of Mai Pokhari in Ilam. According to legend, the pond was born thousands... Read More


Fix what is broken

Nepal, Feb. 1 -- Inside the District Hospital in Mugu, one of Nepal's remotest and underserved regions, hospital staff enter details of an elderly female patient with a prolapsed uterus into a compute... Read More


Bye-bye range anxiety

Nepal, Jan. 31 -- Long-distance EV travel has come a long way in Nepal in the last few years The car's trunk was crammed with boxes and suitcases, almost to the roof, and I was just waiting for the i... Read More


New vs New in Nepal

Nepal, Jan. 30 -- This is an election for a chief executive as personality cult takes over politics In December we headlined an analysis in this paper that the election was going to be a fight between... Read More


Cycling to combat cancer

Nepal, Jan. 29 -- Cancer survivors and healthcare workers bicycle across Nepal to raise funds for patients needing treatment Harka Lama felt as though his life was ending when he was diagnosed with bl... Read More


Time, transience, transition

Nepal, Jan. 28 -- Artists depict ever changing realms of society from folklore to artificial intelligence We walk past familiar neighbourhoods and wonder how much it has changed. An ongoing exhibition... Read More


Nepal's slow grammar of democracy

Nepal, Jan. 27 -- The country's democracy is a mirror, reflecting the dilemma of democratic deepening in unequal societies The slow, arduous labour of democracy rarely announces itself with the fanfar... Read More


Hotter Himalaya melts glaciers

Nepal, Jan. 25 -- The pale green ice on the top of the lake gleams in the pale January sunlight. The dark waters beneath are visible through the translucent frozen surface. This is Thulagi Glacial La... Read More


Moonie money in Nepal's politics

Nepal, Jan. 23 -- Leaked letters from Korea's Unification Church have revealed its extensive involvement in buying political and media influence worldwide, including links to Nepal's parties and polit... Read More


Policing the Police

Nepal, Jan. 23 -- Monday, 8 September marked the largest single-day, state-led massacre of protesters in Nepal's recent history. The indiscriminate firing of automatic weapons on the GenZ demonstrator... Read More