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.
Interviews
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In Part 3 of our interview with Bryony Whistmarsh on Narayanhiti Museum, we look at how the Museum remembers the royal massacre.
Features
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With bold experimentations in mixed media and a continuing desire to learn and evolve, Sunita Maharjan is well on her way to becoming a pioneering Nepali artist.
Photo Essays
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Kathmandu, our eternally bustling capital, has been lulled into sleep by the forbidding coronavirus
Perspectives
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Our urgent need for a second international airport must be balanced with legitimate environment concerns
COVID19
News
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A daily summary of all Covid19 related developments that matter
Books
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Set during the heart of the Gorkhaland Movement, the novella ‘Song of the Soil’ exhibits how revolutions are born in the minds of a few but built on the backs of thousands.
COVID19
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Despite the government’s relief package, the poor and out-of-job in Kathmandu are not consoled
Features
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Thursday’s general strike didn’t quite shut down the country but it slowed it to a crawl -- with threats and violence.
