Photo Essays
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Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated worldwide on March 8.The annual calendar event, according to United Nations, “is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women, who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities”.
This year International Women’s Day is being celebrated with the special 2020 theme, I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights. Like many other countries, Nepal has announced a public holiday and has organized various events to mark the day.
Brickklin worker in outskrits of Kathmandu valley.
Women workers carry sand in a doko- kind of basket made from bamboo at a construction site in Pokhara.
Women walking down trial with their dokos in Pokhara
Children play along with their grand mother at a front yard in Sarangkot, Pokhara.
Books
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Nepal’s history, as documented in Dalit: A Quest for Dignity, shows how entwined Hinduism and caste are.
COVID19
7 min read
Dignified regional cooperation is the need of the hour and self-reliance the major goal
Interviews
Longreads
42 min read
In 1996 Padma Ratna Tuladhar spoke about his background, on the need for linguistic inclusion, the prevalent political culture and foreign aid in Nepal
Features
7 min read
The indigenous Uranw have been lobbying for the Karma puja to be recognized nationally so that community members can get holidays to attend a festival of social cohesion and community bonding.
COVID19
Photo Essays
3 min read
Covid-19 forced Jaquir Mansuri to cancel his daughter’s wedding and delay his plans for retirement but the pandemic is not over yet and Mansuri has gone back to work.
Perspectives
5 min read
School teachers inflicting physical and psychological abuse on students is rampant in Nepal, reflecting the sorry state of education in the country.
Features
4 min read
The latest court ruling in the Nirmala Panta case muddies the waters even more
