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Trail of IEDs fails to subvert the election
Elections
Registration and voting regulations are making it difficult for many Nepalis to get to the polls
For the victims of war-era atrocities to whom Nepal has continually shown an unwillingness to deliver justice, a bleak future awaits
Nepal’s parliament Wednesday criminalised an ancient Hindu practice that banishes women from the home during menstruation. Many communities in Nepal view menstruating women as impure and in some remote areas they are forced to sleep in a hut away from home during their periods, a custom known as chhaupadi. The new law stipulates a three-month […]
Two days after the end of lockdown, the spread of coronavirus has passed a new threshold
Prominent posts tend to fall on the socially and politically more privileged Yadavs and Terai Brahmin-Chhetris
A personal account of the Surma Saravor Jatra, a six day-long festival celebrated every even year of the Nepali calendar by the people of Darchula’s Ghajir and Chetti villages.
It can be a political act for a woman to simply occupy public space. Teej songs, like those by Komal Oli, enable women to do so while joyfully singing and dancing, highlighting their desiring selves.