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.
Perspectives
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A shadow economy has been flourishing amid unchecked corruption, money laundering and rampant impunity
Perspectives
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What not to write when a trans woman is murdered
Features
5 min read
Wild Yak Records is attempting to bring the nostalgia and analog quality of vinyl to a new generation of music aficionados.
Interviews
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Uttam Kunwar’s 1963 conversation with the Rashtrakavi
Features
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Nepal’s fall on the Corruption Perception Index is no surprise, given the scale of corruption in the Oli government this past year.
COVID19
Features
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The government’s latest set of decisions has baffled experts and the public alike
COVID19
News
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