Negatively stereotyping Dalit and disadvantaged students perpetuates caste discrimination in Nepal
Why Nepal’s schools perform poorly year after year
Photo: ALEX PROIMOS/WIKIMEDIA COMMONSPerhaps the most overlooked source of the tiny particulate matter that makes Kathmandu’s air so hazardous…
Nepal is famous for community conservation, but a WWF report points to problems for indigenous groups
Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher Rana (left) with King George V (right) during a 1911 hunting expedition in the Tarai. Ten years later, he hosted…
Aerial photograph of Kathmandu Valley, looking west over the floodplain in 1967. Photo: EARL WEBB/DOUG HALL PEACE CORPS COLLECTIONS Kathmandu…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIRudyard Kipling's 1893 short story ‘The Bridge Builders’ surprised me. It is not about how noble British men brought…
Nepal will open its 2021 lockdown long before the country has enough vaccines to protect its citizens -- our aunts, uncles, and neighbours. We…
International mountain guide Lhakpa Rangdu Sherpa of Happy Feet Mountaineers agency. Photo: HAPPY FEET MOUNTAINEERSFor decades, foreigners have…
Tundikhel in 1921. Photo: Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya archive.The tragic death tolls from two recent earthquakes in the Greater Himalaya should…
One misconception about the Tharu people is that they never got malaria. In fact they did, but less than hill settlers. A US-led insecticide…
Changing Stories Nepal Fellow Sangeeta Basnet teaching at Amar Secondary School in Urhari of Dang.When I taught in a Nepali government school,…
Charge d' Affaires L. Douglas welcomes BP Koirala to the US Embassy inaguration in 1959.On 15 December 1960 (पुस १) exactly 60 years ago, King…
Haphazard urbanisation in Nepal has created ideal conditions for the mosquito that carries the disease
Nepal’s history shows that nature matters in dealing with epidemics but, social differences do, too
The fourth in a series about what it took for the scourge of smallpox to be finally eradicated from Nepal in 1975.
The third in a series about how epidemics in the past determined the course of Nepal’s history
Second instalment in a series tracking the chronic epidemic as it ravaged the subcontinent
Recurring epidemics shaped the course of history in the Himalaya in unexpected and important ways
Patan Darbar Square Photograph taken by Bourne and Sheperd in 1870. Photo: The British LibraryKathmandu in the 1880s was a small place, about…
George Brooks inspecting vegetable farm in the early 1950s. Photo: US NATIONAL ARCHIVESRace formed a contentious part of the early Cold War in…
OUTBREAK: Experimental spraying for mosquitos on inner walls of houses in the Tarai in the 1950s. Pic: USOM records, US National Archives,…
Layers of American history shaped the first big development project in Nepal 65 years ago
The devastating flood of 1954 first exposed Nepal to the geopolitics of natural disasters
